BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
Diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia 2+ years ago, Bruce Willis can be seen with one of his daughters.
It was a sad message that appeared on Instagram to celebrate the bitter-sweet father's day:
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads living with disability or disease, showing up in the ways they can and to the children who show up for them.
What Bruce teaches our girls goes far beyond words. Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet strength in simply being present.
This photo says so much. Love deepens. It adapts. It stays, even when everything else changes.
But to be fair to myself, these symbolic days stir up a lot.
I’m profoundly sad today. I wish, with every cell in my body, that things could be different for him and lighter for our family.
As they say in our FTD community, “It is what it is.” And while that might sound dismissive, to me, it’s not. It grounds me. It helps me return to the acceptance of what is and not fight this every step of the way like I used to.
Today, let’s celebrate the badass dads, those who are here, and those we carry with us 💙
Onward.
Hope for the best.
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