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Tuesdays With Tyler: The Fall Festival!
One of the things I love about living where we do is that you can be in New York City one weekend and down on the farm the next. All of you people who make fun of New Jersey think about … Continue reading
The School Called
Yesterday afternoon I woke up from my nap about half an hour before Tyler gets home from school. Grant was just sitting on the couch. “You better sit down”, he said. I didn’t get my disability, someone has died, are … Continue reading
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Tagged child psychologist, Consumer Advocate, disabilities, disabled, education, Emily, fine motor skills, God, Grant, gross motor skills, kindergarten, OCD, poverty, school, special education, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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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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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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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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You Know You Want to Look!
One of my past posts was entitled Longing to Fit In, in which I wrote that I longed to be in the “healthy mom/people” crowd. (Which you can pretty much figure out on your own, but if you chose to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chronic Fatigue, chronic illness, chronics, Disability, disabled, Fibro, handicapped, Lupus, placard, scooter, staring, wheelchair
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A Letter For The International Day of Acceptance
To my followers, my friends, Today is The International Day of Acceptance, a day to start conversations, make new friends and educate people about anyone who is disabled; be it someone like myself who has Lupus and often can not … Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, chronic illness, disabled, International Day of Acceptance, Lupus, Mother, Person, Sick, Wife
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Tuesdays With Tyler: “What’s That Smell?”
Okay, I admit it, the title was meant to draw you in. (It’s my blog and I can call my posts what I want to!) The above though is true. But it was said to me by Tyler, in response to … Continue reading
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Tagged child, childrenTuesdays With Tyler, chronic, chronic illness, disabled, mom
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