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Tag Archives: Disability
Mama Sick’s Handy Guide For the Healthy Person
(This will be my final contribution to Invisible Illness Awareness Week. If I have helped one new chronically ill person find strength, one chronically ill mom say “Me too!”, if I have educated just one person when it comes to … Continue reading
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Tagged But You Don't Look Sick, chronic, chronic illness, Chronically Ill, chronically ill moms, chronically ill mothers, Disability, disabled, disease, diseases, Disney World, how can you comfort a chronically ill person, How to treat people with chronic illness, Invisible Illness, Invisible Illness Awareness Week, Lupus, what do you say to a chronically person, You Look Fine
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For My Son on His 5th Birthday
Well, my darling, you have hit the “big 5!” Today after school we will take you to Toys r Us to pick something out and we are going to have a cake, a small celebration, just the three of us, … Continue reading
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Tagged "good girl", 5th birthday, Birthday, Cars 2, Cartoon Network. Batman, Disability, Emily, fear of dogs, Grant, Halloween, karate, Legos, Lizzie, Looney Tunes, Ninjago, OCD, Phineas and Ferb, Scotty, Spider-Man, The Mickey Mouse Club-House, The Smurfs, Tourette's Syndrome, Toys r Us, Tyler, Winnie the Pooh
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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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BlogHer Conference 2012: Looking Ahead and Wondering
For those uninitiated, the BlogHer conference 2011 is coming to a close. To read my devastation over not being able to go BlogHer’s past click here and here. This year I was only able to once again, watch from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, appendicitis, BlogHer'11, BlogHer'12, BlogHer. BlogHer Conference, candles, chronic conditions, chronic illness, Death, Disability, disability money, Disney Store, Disney World, dying, emergency room, Emily, Face Book, Father, God, Google+, Grant, hospital, Imagination candle, Jesus, life, Lupus, mommy, pray, prayers, praying, The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Twitter, Tyler, Ulcerative Colitis, ultrasound, Vinylmation
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My So-Called Disability Hearing, Part I
First off, I am sorry that I have not been able to blog sooner. The mere act of skipping a nap on Monday and packing Tyler and I s’ clothes, the drive to the hotel, etc. has left me extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic, Chronically Ill, courthouse, Disability, Disability Hearing, disabled, Eeyore, Handicapped Parking Spaces, lawyer
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My Disability Hearing Is Tomorrow
So of course I am up at 4:30 and cannot go back to sleep, thinking about all of the things I have to do for it, which includes packing a bit of stuff for Tyler and I, Grant can pack … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE bandages, Disability, Disability Hearing, disabled, Eeyore, Google+, heat packs, ice packs, judge, lawyer, Newark, pain medication, tweet, Twitter, Xanax
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Sweating Stuff Big and Small
(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 to the shop this weekend, yeah, Happy Fathers Day to … Continue reading
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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My 2nd Blogiversary! The Mission Continues
(I am writing this on my husbands computer because mine is temporarily out of commission. His plural/quotation key does not work, I do not have that bad of a grammar problem. Okay, on with the show!) I have to say … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd, acceptance, Anger, anxiety, Bargaining, Bipolar Disorder, Blogiversary, Christine Miserandino, Chronic Fatigue, chronic illness, Denial, Depression, Disability, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Jenni Prokopy, Lupus, Mania, NAMI, On Death and Dying, Purpose, The 5 Stages of Coping With a Chronic Illness, Was God Punishing Me, Why Me
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