One Sunday morning last year, I got up feeling adventurous. (My husband had been in an Infantry unit in Afghanistan since January, and our daughter was just diagnosed PDD-NOS/Autism Spectrum Disorder in February, after being born during my husband’s last deployment with a chromosome deletion and many medical issues, developmental delay, etc.)
I thought it seemed like as good a day as any to try to take her to church. We had brought her every Sunday from the time she was born, even through the toughest times of her congestive heart failure and feeding tube days, until one day about 18 months ago - she began screaming the moment we walked into the building. I tried for 20 minutes to calm her not understanding what the problem was, etc., thinking it was a mood rather than anything else and she would eventually be alright to sit for mass. …continue reading
Simon hates going to the doctor. Our first evaluation with a developmental pediatrician and psychologist were going fine, my 3 1/2 year old easily letting us parents out of the room for fun skills tests,
With the new school year starting for my daughter, I knew I wanted to be prepared. I wanted her teacher(s) prepared and I wanted her classmates prepared. So I searched high and low for all
He looked at me as his bus pulled away this morning, and before I even got to do it, he blew me a kiss. And I started crying. I cried because with that kiss, eight years of heartbreak and
Sometimes being a mom to a SN needs kid makes me feel like an utter and complete failure. T is in one of many regressions in his SPD and it reminds me that I am
How do you thank someone who has given you and your child everything? This is what I thought as I drove to my son’s very last session with his Physical Therapist. (He will be transitioning