Tiffany Matthews-Lay and Donna Curtis
Recorded
May 29, 2021
Archived
May 29, 2021
39:14 minutes
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Id:
mby020735
Description
Tiffany Matthews-Lay (46) shares a conversation with her aunt Donna Curtis (69) about Tiffany’s son and the role that Tiffany’s mother, Donna’s sister, played in helping to raise him.Subject Log / Time Code
TLM talks about her son, who was born with Kabuki Syndrome, and about the role her mother played in helping to raise him.
DC and TLM talk about Tiffany’s son’s relationship with his grandmother.
TLM tells the story of her son’s role in the school play.
TLM talks about her son’s experience playing ice hockey.
TLM talks about some of the scarier moments that have happened with her son, including when he started to have seizures, and about the peace that Tiffany’s mother was able to bring to those situations.
DC talks about what her sister would do when TC’s son would get in trouble.
TLM shares the advice that her mother gave her about raising a child with special needs, saying that she should raise him like any other child.
DC shares how proud her sister was of TLM and her husband for being such good advocates for their son.
TLM talks about deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan as a civilian engineer when her son was young and advocating for him from a distance.
TLM talks about a family trip they took with her son and her mother, and DC talks about how TLM’s family celebrates Christmas. TLM also talks about the first Christmas they celebrated without her mother.
DC talks about her relationship with her sister and how that relationship changed in the last year of her sister’s life.
TLM talks about a time that her whole family got sick with a stomach bug and how her mother came to help.
DC takes about the role she has taken on in the family since her sister passed away.
Participants
- Tiffany Matthews-Lay
- Donna Curtis