My wife Yash and I can vividly recall each moment related to the life of Maurya, our first-born. The arrival of our son, Maurya on July 11, 2012, was a watershed moment for us. Everybody's journey on planet Earth is different, yet there are commonalities in certain universal experiences that bind us together as a race with emotional chords. Our life struggles with Maurya set us on unexpected paths. Between Maurya's early toddler stage and the 2020 present, it has been an emotional roller coaster ride. Maurya endured eight years of doctors, hospitals, tests, therapies, diagnoses, and misdiagnoses. My wife and I went through stages of denial and desperation. We garnered our strength and we persevered. To top it all, I was down with Acoustic Neuroma and battled it with strength and hope. In the year 2020, Maurya, in his way, is a success story. He is a happy child, a caring brother to his one-year-old sister, Disha, and a loving cousin to our niece, Moksha. He is very amiable and amusing, plays the piano well, wins spelling bees, passionately builds Legos, plays X-box games and excels at both math and science. He loves watching the NFL and NBA games and also loves plants and animals. He continues to play wheelchair basketball.This is my emotional journey. This is my story. A story about strength, triumph, and hope. About the author: Vamsi Koduri- An MBA, PMP, CSM, ITIL certified, is a Project Manager working for Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systemes Company. Medidata is technology company that develops and markets software as a service (SaaS) for clinical trials. As a clinical professional, he has over 15 years of experience in the Health Sciences Industry. He is an accomplished short film maker and is well versed with film making. In wanting to write his memoir over the years as his first endeavor, Vamsi Koduri narrates his heart warming and heart wrenching experiences of his first born, a 'special child' Maurya Koduri while navigating the other aspects of his life.