Recently, at the behest of our cardiologist, we met with a neuropsychologist who administered a great many tests and even called our son’s teacher for an interview. There was no recent trigger for this visit, other than my intense interest in the “Whole Body” health care approach to CHD and our recent trip to the Single Ventricle Survivorship clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The field of neuroscience is advancing rapidly, and the leading pediatric cardiologists are realizing that you can’t put a body on life-support multiple times during a… Read more Half-heart, Whole Body: Part Two, B-R-A-I-N-S →
The first thing I wrote after learning, on December 30, 2002, that my unborn baby faced a high likelihood of death at birth was an email to work, explaining why… Read more Can of Worms →
I am not sleeping, so I will write. Tonight (which is now yesterday) at dinner, Liam asked, “Do you know what today is?” and Jim and I looked at each… Read more It Was a Monday →
I hereby declare that this is the last time I will ever write about Shaun White. Why? Because I’m over it. I’m over him. I’m done with this topic, and… Read more Moving on . . . or I’m SO over Shaun White →
My friend George died on April 29th. I wrote most of this post on May 1st, but it seemed too soon. I left it here in my draft folder and… Read more My Friend George →
UPDATED: April 3, 2014 – What it looks like now. I wanted to tell all the lovely people who found this post because they too were facing a Mohs procedure… Read more Mohs better lip: lots of swelling, no more carcinoma – updated with stitches →
April is a strange month. This April we had twenty-two inches of snow in less than two days. April is full of birthdays, memories, and taxes. April is the time… Read more Seasons Change →
I stole and spun the title of this post from a book of short stories and a story within said book titled, “What we Talk About When We Talk About… Read more What We Talk About When We Talk About Shaun White . . . A Postscript →