Cruisin’ into 2010!

Yes she is!    These past two weeks have been absolutely amazing in terms of a developmental spurt with Hannah.  I had been holding off sharing it because it just seemed to good to be true, and I didn’t want to jinx it.  But she is doing these things more and more that I really believe […]

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Hannah’s 2nd Happy Holiday!

One of the gift’s of keeping a journal like this is being able to go back in time and see what you were thinking and feeling like at Hannah’s first Christmas. There were just a few times during the past few days that I think about what we have in store for us in the […]

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Trying to understand Hannah’s symptoms

Right off the bat, I am so incredibly grateful that Hannah has such wonderful doctor’s in her corner.  Dr. Roy, her ENT, and Dr. B, her pediatrician, have been emailing back and forth (CCing me) about getting a handle on these choking/gagging and hyperventilation episodes that Hannah has now.   She really has the best of […]

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Reflections of today…

This afternoon was tough for me.  We got home from our failed road trip, and I felt very mopey and defeated for the few hours after that.   All I kept thinking is, how the heck are we going to get her to the nursing home in order to fulfill this requirement for the MDCP (Texas’ […]

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Oh well…

We are back home already.  Three hours after we first left to head to the nursing home. We only made it 50 miles (1/4 of the way there), and Hannah had already had four hyperventilation episodes by that point.  There was just no consoling her in her car seat, so we had to stop, take […]

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My stomach is in knots

In about 15 minutes we head out for our road trip to the nursing home.  By map, it is only a 4-hour drive.  But since we will be making numerous planned (and hopefully no unplanned) stops, it will probably be more like 6 hours. Right now, my stomach is in knots.  Not as much because […]

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