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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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You Are NOT The Only One
(As Invisible Illness Awareness Week continues, I am dedicating my posts to those with Chronic Invisible Illnesses, and to helping those who may know of someone with an Invisible Illness better understand them. It is an honor for me to … Continue reading
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Chronic Illness and Our Children
(In honor of Invisible Illness Awareness Week, I am dedicating my posts to those with chronic illnesses and to helping those who may know someone with a chronic illness to better understand them. It is an honor for me to … Continue reading
Take a Breath
(We interrupt our regularly scheduled Tuesdays With Tyler in honor of Invisible Illness Awareness Week. For the rest of the week, as much as I can, I hope to concentrate on comforting those who are first experiencing illness, those who … Continue reading
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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September 11th: Through a Child’s Eyes
I started tearing up yesterday. My friend, who had lost his father on September 11, 2001 on Flight 93, had put up a tribute to one of our classmates who had worked in one of the Twin Towers. Today I … Continue reading
9-11: Never Forgotten
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt #4. 9-11 Memories Like most people who were probably aged 20 and older, I will never forget where I was when I first realized what was happening on 9-11. Mine isn’t the most “exciting” … Continue reading
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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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Wrong Bus
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt #1.) Write a post about a childhood memory as if you’re in that moment again…from the perspective of yourself as that child. I am in kindergarten now and I am going to be five … Continue reading
