I understand

So as I write this with knowledge of what pku is I venture a little more in to a time in my parents life that I can't really understand - as I was young. With the "Meyer" family being so big and everyone having lots of kids I started to wonder why I was the baby and there were no more? My dad loved children and my mom was a hard worker and obviously loved us - so would she eventually have more children? I never thought a whole lot about it until I got older and we were at a family reunion on the Meyer side. There were 100's of people there. All of the families were bigger than ours. Questions ran through my mind as a young 13 year old... didn't my mom and dad like kids? Didn't they have enough money to have anymore? Was there something wrong with my mom that she couldn't have anymore? The list when on and on in my juvenile mind, it never once occured to me that what my brother Jeff had (pku) could be given to other children. I never understood why you wouldn't want anymore children as I never realized there was anything wrong with Jeff. I figured everyone had a Jeff and was as lucky as I was. I remember the ladies who babysat us, Clara and Ursie. They said "they wouldn't take a million dollars for Jeff, but they wouldn't give a penny for another one". They were older ladies and the work had gotten to much for them as Jeff was a hand full. With this statement and the maturing of my mind I started to realize more of the facts that Jeff was indeed different than me and other kids that I knew. He took a lot of care with his special diet and special needs. And although my mom and dad loved us both very much, it would be to much of a risk to have another child. So like Clara and Ursie said "We wouldn't take two million dollars for Jeff" he was ours and we loved him so but two kids were enough... and I finally understand.