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Archive for April, 2008

“Woo Hoo!”
Okay, not really.  But I sure as shooting did. After he left the room.  Because finally, finally, and finally, after one bad news report after another, I received a good news report at the doctor’s office.  May I say it again?
WOO HOO!
Here’s the scoop for my four week post-surgical visit.  The reflexes, nerve sensations, [...]

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James, part III…

Planning for my meeting with the perinatologist was a huge event. I wanted to walk in prepared, having done my research, armed with intelligent questions, and then be able to leave satisfied that this baby and all my plans for children were still perfectly intact.
Husband was active duty military at the time and could not [...]

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of things, this whole back injury, while significant, has not been the worst thing to happen to me. When I consider the other difficult trials of life, losing a child, struggles in marriage, broken relationships with family or friends, this back thing is more like an inconvenient and awkward burp than some major life crash.
Yet, [...]

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it’s been a week since Banner Day, and I’ve got things to tell you.
[Crickets chirping]
(I’ve always wanted to blog that.)
All right, truth is, I’ve got nothing, basically. Because while Banner Day was its own Hallmark worthy event, it also revealed that due to a certain obstinacy of character, ahem, a certain surgical back patient [...]

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because I was allowed out of bed, outside of my house, in a car, driving down the street.  Outside of all those prepositions, I’m still shocked.
Of course, why should I be?  Today was staple removing day.  Hallmark doesn’t have a card for the event, but it stood out to me.  For no longer am I [...]

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Like most first time moms, especially those who have planned their pregnancies down to the first time they throw up, I was all over every book and resource, magazine article and parenting tipsheet, that hit the press. I’m a huge reader anyway, and research is my special hobby. Put me onto an event [...]

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