Previously, I’ve written 2 letters on my own blog. One to Lauren and one to Jillian. I’ve decided that I have some things to say to Cerebral Palsy. Dear CP, Can I call you that? I just think we should be on a first name basis by now. You invaded my life when my youngest…
Category Archives: Conditions and Diseases
Love Can Build a Bridge Between Your Heart and Mine
What is it about the wheelchair that attracts people? Some times it’s the looks but other times there are full blown conversations with people the randomly say things (not all bad!) My first outing with my son and his wheelchair was to a restuarant. I was meeting a friend for breakfast. We were eating and…
Staying Sane While Raising a Bipolar Child
She stomps out of the room, each firmly-planted step shaking the floor. Tear-stained, she plunges her face into the pillows on her bed, where she screams and cries. As she starts to calm down, I feel the adrenaline retreating into the places from which it flooded my body. Breathing, relaxing myself, I tend to her…
Cell To Person: A Cerebral Palsy Symposium
I mentioned briefly last week that I had the opportunity to attend a cerebral palsy symposium at Holland Bloorview. To say that it was completely overwhelming with information would be an understatement! I thought I could give you all a readers digest version here. If you need/want to read the detailed post, please head over…
Social Inclusion for Children with Developmental Disabilities
This week, I received a notice, asking me if I would participate in a research study being done by a local university on the social inclusion of children with developmental disabilities. It states that the university is: looking for participants (parents & guardians) to complete an online study about the social inclusion of preschool and…
The Lost Voice
This morning when I dropped Peanut off for school I realized I didn’t have her iPod Touch. She uses her iPod touch to communicate at school and over the last several months it has been a great way for her to participate in class. This isn’t the first time I have not had her “voice”…
Complacent?
I scrambled up the hill to my daughter’s “old school” to pick up my son from his “new class.” My daughter attended this school from Early Intervention through Kindergarten before being moved to our neighborhood school for first grade. I know most of the Early Intervention staff pretty well, and I know the IEP process…
The Memory of When All This Began
Finding my desk seems to be a monthly routine. Find it. Bask in the warmth of my clean office, with my most favorite dinning table turned into desk in plain site, no longer engulfed with the bills paperwork…until the month comes around and I fulfill the same process again. It has its perks. This month…
Are you tired about Botox?
I know, I seem to be talking about Botox a lot lately. It’s been on my mind for a while! (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can check out THIS post and then THIS one). Jillian finally received Botox treatment last Wednesday. According to Cerebral Palsy Source: US researcher studied 250…
Happy Mother’s Day
When I became a mother in 2002, I truly felt transformed. The birth of my son was an empowering experience; primal and intense and painful, but giving birth to him and becoming a mother for the first was truly the most incredible moment in my life. Having my second child in 2003, at home, and…