St. Patrick’s Day, Seizures, School, Health Update, CP and Epilepsy Awareness Days, and a Heartfelt Thank You

Happy St. Patrick’s Day – A Little Bit Late   I got lucky when I met Stacy. Very lucky. Those that know her—and those of you who have read this blog for any amount of time—know that she is an amazing person. What did I do to deserve her? I…

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Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month: Days 1-15

Like she did last year, Stacy has been posting daily facts about cerebral palsy on James’ Facebook page as part of Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. I will be compiling those daily posts into two separate posts here. Below you will find the daily facts from days 1 through 15 along…

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Read more about the article Digestion Issue Update, School, and a Slow Dad
Tough kids wear green for cerebral palsy awareness

Digestion Issue Update, School, and a Slow Dad

This is going to be a relatively short post. Things have been pretty calm around here, which is good, but it also makes us a bit nervous. Just when we think things are back to normal—normal for us anyway—James seems to throw us a curveball. So, for now, we are…

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March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month

  If you follow Fans of James on Facebook, you are probably already aware that March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. James was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, or CP, when he was in the NICU. In spreading awareness of CP, our aim is help people: See the person before the…

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Read more about the article Health Update, Valentine’s Day, and the Perfect Sign
Waiting for the doctor

Health Update, Valentine’s Day, and the Perfect Sign

Health Update Tuesday, February 10th was a bit busy with doctor appointments. We had pre-scheduled back-to-back-to-back (yes that’s three) doctor appointments with GI, neurology, and neurosurgeon. These were all just follow-up appointments and fortunately they were all at the same hospital. GI was a follow-up to see how James has…

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Hanging out with James will mommy sleeps

Life Can Be Shorter Than You Think and a Health Update

We did not choose to become parents of a special needs child, the choice was made for us. And as parents of a special needs child, we have been introduced to and become friends with other families with special needs children...some local, others across the country. One of those families…

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Watching TV in the ER

A Quick Trip to the Hospital and Other Happenings

I’m trying to stay on track and keep up with posting at least every other week, but we’ll have to see. This month has been a bit rough, with James being in the hospital those first two weeks of the month, and running back and forth between work, the hospital,…

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