So, last I think I did a major Avery post was here, when I went off the deep end of despair diagnosing him as having autism. So much has happened since then. Looking back, I do understand where I was coming from and why I was so concerned. But thankfully, with a lot of trial [...]
Starting out with a side notial tangent. Every once in a while my site stats show me that someone or a few someones are spending their whole weekend reading every single post of my blog. And I feel like, “Should I have a warning on this thing?” Like: Reading this whole blog about my life [...]
Oh. My. God. You all with the parenting partners–the live-in kind, I mean–have been holding out. Having another live person in-house to share in the childcare gig is, um, REALLY FUCKING GREAT. I have not updated for a while not because anything was wrong, but because I was having such an easy, breezy time of it [...]
I have to admit being a lucky parent. Except for Naim’s feeding problems early on and Aaron’s febrile seizures that seem to have ceased, I have had very few, if any, real problems parenting them. And the aforementioned problems are purely medical, not behavioral–as in–there wasn’t anything I could do about them anyway except ride [...]
D is home from the hospital, now. And he’s pissed. He has done his own research to find out what happened, and it turned out that there is such a thing as intrathecal baclofen withdrawal, which can be very serious. It causes wild blood pressure fluctuations (check), fever (check), severe spasticity that can result in [...]
