{"id":1388,"date":"2015-08-13T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:31:52","slug":"nickys-life-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Nicky&#8217;s Life Part 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 8\u00a0of an infinite series of photos I am posting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/butterflychildbook\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> I have for the book I wrote about my journey raising my son\u00a0with RDEB (Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa) called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflychildamothersjourney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Butterfly Child<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0I am\u00a0posting a few images from Nicky&#8217;s life\u00a0and commenting on either what was going on at the time or explaining things about the picture per se.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;picture commentary&#8221; will serve as a companion for anyone that is kind enough to purchase and read my book as my appreciation and thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nini2001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nini2001.jpg\" alt=\"nini2001\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nini2001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nini2001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>November\u00a02001 &#8211; Nicky was always my little ham when he was little. He started playing videogames when he was 4.5 years old and never stopped. If there was one thing that I could say that is keeping him alive at this point is his love of playing. I feel a little down this AM, so please accept my apologies. Nicky&#8217;s ability to &#8220;move&#8221; has deteriorated quite a bit in the past few years. He hasn&#8217;t walked now since late 2011. Every step is excruciating. So many well-wishers often tell us they hope he&#8217;ll be OK soon. The truth is, RDEB is degenerative. It gets worse and worse with age. He won&#8217;t be OK soon or ever unless a cure is found.<\/p>\n<p>Despite it all, Nicky is always smiling, laughing, loving&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link on where to purchase the book if interested:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflychildamothersjourney.com\/?page_id=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/<wbr \/>www.butterflychildamothersj<wbr \/>ourney.com\/?page_id=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love &amp; Light,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Animation337_silvia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-833\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Animation337_silvia.gif\" alt=\"Animation337_silvia\" width=\"218\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topmommyblogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topmommyblogs.com\/directory\/images\/banners\/tmb-728x90-an.gif\" alt=\"Vote for me @ Top Mommy Blogs - Mom Blog Directory\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=1388\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"20\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"reverse_time\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 8&nbsp;of an infinite series of photos I am posting on the Facebook page I have for the book I wrote about my journey raising my son&nbsp;with RDEB (Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa) called Butterfly Child.&nbsp;I am&nbsp;posting a few images from Nicky&rsquo;s life&nbsp;and commenting on either what was going&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,410],"tags":[137,229],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-nickyslife","tag-butterfly-child","tag-nickys-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}