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Happy to See 2011 Go, Especially This Week!
Poor Tyler. He has been home all week for Winter break and what a week it’s been for me healthwise. He has been great through it all I have to say. As I have told you, I have been going … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Christmas, chronic illness, chronically ill moms, Depression, Emily, Grant, holidays, insomnia, Mental Illness, nausea, New Year's Eve, therapist, Tyler
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Why I Stay
(I read Lost Edens as a member of the From Left to Write book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post is inspired by the book. Welcome to all of my fellow book club members or … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, alcohol abuse, anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Book club, Consumer Advocate, Disability, disability accommodation, disabled, drug abuse, Emily, fatherhood, From Left to Write Book Club, Grant, Jamie Patterson, Lost Edens, marijuana, marriage, Mental Illness, Mental Illnesses, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, parenting, Prozac, psychiatric drugs, psychiatrist, Social Security Disability, therapist, therapy, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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Wondering About My Son’s Future
(I read Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed as a member of the From Left to Write Book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post was inspired by the book.) The thing I like … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, anxiety in children, Book club, bullying, bullying in the young child, Carry Yourself Back to Me, Deborah Reed, Emily, From Left to Write, From Left to Write Book Club, Grant, hyper-blinking, Myths About Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Pediatric Neurologist, sleeping in bed with your child, ticing, tics, Tourette's, Tourette's symptoms, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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Tyler’s First, First Day
Monday night I could not sleep. It was nothing new really; when I wake up, whether to go to the bathroom or I hear a noise, I often awake in pain, and then I need to take something for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th birthday, anxiety, back pack, Birthday, bus, child, children, education, Eeyore, Emily, first day of kindergarten, first day of school, flood watch, Grant, Hurricane Irene, kids, kindergarten, New Jersey, OCD, school, school bus, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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The Summer of Chronic
About ten minutes ago (around 7 a.m.) I got my first sense of “back to school” dread. Even though I was a good student, I was a girl who loved her summers. I was a tom boy; a tree climber, … Continue reading
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Tagged abilities, anxiety, autumn, back to school, back to school blues, back to school time, chronic, chronic disease, chronic illness, Connecticut, daycare, Depression, diagnosis, Disability, disease, Get Smart, Gidget, Grant, Harriet the Spy, Judy Blume, karate, kindergarten, Labor Day, library, Lupus, New Jersey, New York, OCD, Paul Zindel, pre-school, preschool, sensory issues, Sensory Perception Disorder, Social Security Administration, summer, summer camp, The Cars 2, The Smurfs, Tyler, Winnie the Pooh, winter
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At the Social Security Doctors – The Horror, The Horror
(I am sorry to keep you waiting so long. I wrote this over the course of two days, starting on Monday overnight. I am sorry it is so long but I felt that it is a story that HAD to … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Bi-polar Disorder, cancer, Cirque du Soleil, Depression, Disability, Disability Hearing, Doctor, Doctors, exams, Fibromyalgia, hospitalization, hypermobile, hypermobility, lawyer, Lupusl, Mania, Mental, Neurological, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Orencia, Rheumatological, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security doctors, Substantial Gainful Employment, trial
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Tuesdays With Tyler: Future Shock
(Usually this is the time where I write a light piece about something funny Tyler has said or done. However, this time isnt it, so if you are looking to have a smile or a chuckle, you may want to … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: On the Eve of My Sons Graduation
(After having just a precious 2 days with my beloved laptop, there is a problem with the new hard drive they put in, so once again, I must bring it in to the shop. Things have been so crazy, yeah … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: Memorial Day Weekend!
(On my husbands laptop again. As we speak my Genius Computer Guy is trying to recover my data from the old hard drive, and then hopefully put it on my new hard drive, please God! Please note that my husbands … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, family, friends, Memorial Day Weekend, OCD, sick moms, Tuesdays With Tyler
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My Mother and I, and The Ways We See Parenting
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. 2.) Not your mother’s daughter…how do you parent differently than your mother did? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? When I saw this prompt, an overwhelming sense of dread came over me. … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, child, Daughter, Disability, Lupus, Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop, Mental Illnesses, Mother, OCD, Parent, Rheumatoid Arthritis, son, Tourette's Syndrome, unconditional love
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