Guilt and Moving On

I haven’t been posting as much recently because things have started to calm down a bit, and we are finding ourselves getting into more of a routine with everything. Hannah is now at 5 therapies a week (PT, OT x2, Dev therapy, and vision). We are still working on getting the speech pathology consultation. She […]

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Be at Peace, Niamh Lilly Kay Evans

Sweet, beautiful little Niamh lost her battle with Gaucher’s Disease type 2 last week.    She was only 10 months old.   She fought so hard, for every breath, every day of her life. I met her a few months ago, soon after she was diagnosed.   I felt a real connection with her mom, as she had […]

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A day of positivity

Today was a good day.  A really good day. We started our twice-a-week occupational therapy sessions this afternoon.  It was a really rough start because as soon as Hannah saw Pat, the OT, she broke into hysterics and didn’t want anything to do with therapy today.  But I didn’t give in to Hannah this week […]

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Getting therapy in order

Today is an appointment-free day!  How rare is this, I don’t know what to do!  We are still working out Hannah’s therapies.  We have increased her OT at TCH to twice a week (Tues and Thurs), still has PT at TCH once a week (Wed), and developmental therapy once a week with ECI (Friday).  We are […]

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Difficult Transitions

I wish someone had given me a heads-up as to what parenting a special needs child with a life-limiting disease is really like.  I wish someone would have told me about how consuming this type of lifestyle becomes.  I wish someone would have shared that tears (happy and sad), fear and hope, and chaos would become […]

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A possible delivery system that crosses the blood-brain barrier!!!!

Kyle’s mom and I are off to get the researchers’ opinions of this hopeful breakthrough!  University of Iowa scientists use blood-brain barrier as therapy delivery system Enzyme delivered through the bloodstream corrects deficiencies in the brain The blood brain barrier is generally considered an obstacle to delivering therapies from the bloodstream to the brain. However, […]

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