Stress-induced Attention Deficit Disorder?

As familiar as I have become with ADD and ADHD over the past few years, I am starting to wonder if I have developed stress-induced ADD. Yeah, I know, it isn’t a real diagnosis.   But I feel like I fit the symptoms to a “T”.   I even googled it, but I couldn’t find […]

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Days becoming a blur

These past four days or so have become a total blur to me. Daddy had to go out of state for work, and I was on my own with the three kids.   We had a shortened nursing schedule each day because Daddy also was out of town last weekend, and I needed help on […]

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Princess Pullups Revelation

I ran out of diapers upstairs tonight.   Being too lazy and tired to go downstairs, I found some of Abby’s old pullups in one of the baskets up here.   Since they are the same size as what Hannah would be wearing now, I used them.  Perfect fit. But then it hit me.  Hannah is […]

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Getting the movement beast under control

We increased Hannah’s Klonopin last week. After getting her bloodwork back showing that her therapeutic level was still below the low end of normal, Hannah’s neuro agreed that we can do an increase to see how she tolerates it.  She was at 2.0 mL twice a day and 3.0 mL at night.  So he changed […]

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Asking for help

I was talking with a good friend of mine recently, more like venting actually, at how much it hurts that we can’t provide Hannah with the therapy and mobility equipment that we feel she would benefit from.  For whatever reason, special needs and therapy equipment seem 5x more expensive than they should be! She suggested […]

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Nursing Woes

We lost one of our favorite nurses this week.  She had been with us since Hannah was released from the hospital back in July 2010. She has always been so wonderful with Hannah.  You could see there was a real connection there between them.  Even Ethan and Abigail enjoyed her company. However, these past few […]

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