Halloween tricks

I couldn’t handle Halloween this year, apparently. I didn’t realize this until two days ago when we took Ethan, Abby, and my nephew and two nieces to a big Halloween event here in town.  When Daddy and I were walking, keeping tabs on Ethan and Abby, it hit me that this is our first event […]

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Slow progress

We have been on the new regimen with the addition of the increased Klonopin and Tegretol for a couple of days now, and we have definitely seen some improvement in her movement disorder and agitation.  I would say we are about 50% better than we were just a week or so ago. We are using […]

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Calling in the Calvary

Hannah still is not comfortable.  It sucks. It is painful to watch when she gets really uncomfortable and agitated,  Our hospice team is trying so hard to get her comfort manageable, but it seems none of the normal avenues work for her.   Usually they use a lot of narcotics like Ativan, Versed, etc., but […]

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Keeping a sense of normalcy

Thank goodness we have Ethan and Abby.  Seriously, if Hannah was an only child, I think I would have fallen into a major depression by now and would never leave our house. But Ethan and Abby force us to continue to live our lives, even if it is not at full throttle.  Because we have […]

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Missing our bond

For the past year, Hannah has had strabismus (her eyes turned inward).   We see it in all her pictures, and I got used to looking into the beautiful brown eyes and seeing them crossed, but she still would be able to gaze back into my eyes.  Classic Gaucher symptom that you just eventually learn […]

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Challenging

“Challenging” is a word I have heard used to describe Hannah more times throughout her life than I can count.  Just once, I wish she could just not be so challenging. We are still trying to find the right combination of meds to balance her agitation and movement disorder in order to give her body […]

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