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Losing, Keeping and Making New Friends
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 5) This message has been floating around Facebook for a couple of weeks: “If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be in it. So don’t … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: The Trip to the Big City
On Friday we took Tyler in to New York City for the first time. If you want my take on it, you can go here. This post is about how the trip went for Tyler. We decided to go to … Continue reading
The Day After the Day After
No, I did not survive a nuclear explosion, I just feel like I did. I’m talking about when a chronically ill parent decides they are going to give it their all, usually to do something stupid if not impossibly beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Chronically Ill, chronically ill parent, dinosaurs, Disability, disabled, Emily, Grant, Greenwich Village, housebound, iPhone, Jewish New Year, New York, New York City, nodules, rheumatoid nodules, SoHo, The Museum of Natural History, Tyler, wheelchair
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Fishing Trip and Other Tales
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 2. A memorable fishing trip. I’ve only been fishing one time so right there that’s pretty memorable. But this isn’t so much about a fishing trip as it is a story from my … Continue reading
The Walking Dead
The Social Security Disability Doctors said it, some of my friends on Twitter are saying it, and my last psychiatrist was suspecting it; maybe I am indeed bipolar. I thought the two extremes would have to come at the same … Continue reading
On Being Remembered
(I read Cleopatra A Life 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 hour urine test, Adventure Time, blog, blogger, Book club, Cartoon Network, chronic illness, Chronically Ill, Cleopatra, Cleopatra A Life, Disability, Egyptian Queen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Food Stamps, friend, From Life to Write book club, Gumball, illnesses, immunosuppressant, Julius Caesar, Lady GaGa, Liz Taylor, Mark Antony, Mother, parents with chronic illness, Shakespeare, special needs child, Stacy Schiff, The Regular Show, thyroid, Wife
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Results of the Social Security Doctors’ Exams – It Ain’t Pretty
Before you read this post, you might want to read my first post from last month, when I went to the Social Security doctors that the judge asked me to in the middle of my disability trial. It has been … Continue reading
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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Tuesdays With Tyler: Birthday With Pictures!
Tyler’s fifth birthday (and LAST birthday extravaganza!) was this Saturday and a good time was had by all. I was so scared that I would not get through it. The day before, my fever was 100 degrees before I stopped … Continue reading
Planning Ahead With SmartTalk and the State Theatre of New Brunswick!
(I am working with SmartTalk in exchange for the opportunity to see these speakers at no cost to me, and for promotional opportunities for my blog. I am not being monetarily compensated.) I am pleased to announce that I have … Continue reading
