Back in January, I was messing around trying to come up with something to help straighten James' wrists. Because of his cerebral palsy or his muscle tone, his wrists curl in. You can see the makeshift wrist splint I made on this blog post. I tried, but they didn’t work…
Most of our family is local, or local-ish which is nice. There are a few people on Stacy’s mom’s side that live in adjoining states that hadn’t met James yet. We had a get together today so they could finally meet him. They knew about James and his medical issues…
A few weeks ago, James went to see a neuro eye doctor. One of the doctor's recommendations was to schedule a Visual Evoked Potential test with neurology. We took James to have this test done today. For the Visual Evoked Potential test, or VEP, they attached electrodes to James' head…
Did the title of this post pique your interest? Sorry. I am a little tired and wasn’t sure how to title this post so I just wrote the first thing that came to mind. When James was born, one of his testes wasn’t descended into the scrotum. One of his…
Stacy found a song/video on YouTube that really hits home. The song is "The Life That’s Chosen Me," written by Karen Taylor-Good and Lisa Aschmann. It’s about having a child with special needs. In my Father's Day post, I shared similar thoughts/feelings that she shares in the first verse: We…
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I’m not sure if I would call this my first Father’s Day or my second. I think technically I became a father when Jackson was conceived. Even though we lost him before he was born, I still consider him my first child. He would have been about 3 months old…