Tag: challenges
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Let’s Talk About Mrs. Smith Instead…
This past week, I was reading the news as I used the restroom (that is my dedicated time to peruse the headlines because even my bathroom time currently gets doubly committed), when I ran across a Rolling Stone article on Mrs. Smith. Normally, I don’t have time to do more than scan a few sentences…
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Delving Into the Latest Dental Visits
This will come as no surprise to those of you who have been reading with us for a while now, but Tony doesn’t like dentists any more than he likes doctors. We’ve not really discussed specifics much for his dental visits, in part because we’ve had years of experiences to talk about and I struggle…
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The Trouble With Hotels
In November of 2017, our family took a long-planned trip to Disneyland. That trip, and the extensive work we did to help Tony prepare for it, is mostly a topic of a future post. I suspected (translation: totally knew it) we could be in for a few challenging moments given his sensory differences. However, I…
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January Gratitude & Reading
To Ms. B, Tony’s Sweet ST, For Insane Amounts of Patience If someone were to ask me who I think has the hardest job on Tony’s therapy team, there is no doubt it would be Ms. B. Not only is she having to work with Tony on some of the skills he’s least interested in…
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Unpacking Christmas
Every year since Andy and I married, the evening of our Thanksgiving celebration we would bring out the boxes of artificial tree and holiday ornaments to unpack Christmas. Like many families, we decorated our winter holiday times with traditions that only made a guest appearance one month out of each year. As the severity of…
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Medication & Regulation Roller Coaster
I feel like this past month should have come with warning labels. Warning: Medications often have disruptive side effects. Warning: Sometimes this roller coaster flips of the tracks when life changes too quickly. Warning: Once you step on board, not everything that happens on this ride is in your control. So, I’m going to give…
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Tony’s Halloween
Hey guys! Happy (late) Halloween!!! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and weren’t driven insane by trick-or-treaters pestering you for candy. Although there are a few different ways to celebrate Halloween, many people celebrate by: Going trick-or-treating or taking their kids trick-or-treating Going to Halloween parties Watching a Halloween movie Dressing up Handing out candy…
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“This is Halloween…”
For the past few weeks, decorations have begun pushing up through the soil and fluttering around the tree branches of one home after another in our neighborhood. When I was younger, I can’t remember anyone beginning to decorate for Halloween so early. And I know that for some of you, the upcoming week may already…
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Every Day is “Groundhog Day”
They say life isn’t like the movies, as if every day’s agenda will be definitively pulled from a drop menu of easily parsed platitudes. Some days can not be bound by such lists and assumptions. Entire years even can be unrestrainedly defiant of them. In this house we have been given a different script to…
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“The Heart Melteth”
About 10 a.m. Monday morning I got a phone call from the office of Tony’s new developmental pediatrician. They had a cancellation for Tuesday, and were wondering if I’d like to take that appointment. Yes, yes, and heck yes! And then it hit me…I hadn’t filled out any of the gargantuan paperwork packet yet for…