Happy New Year…a month late. Hope you are all doing well. We’re hanging in there, impatiently waiting for winter to be over. It’s been brutal this year. James doesn’t do well with the cold in the winter…or in the hot, humid summers. I often ask myself why we are still…
This should be a short post because not much has happened over the past month. In my last post I told you that he had his VNS replaced because the battery was almost dead and that we had to wait a couple of weeks after surgery to have it turned…
School You know, it kind of sucks when you’re so dependent on someone else. James is 100% dependent on others to provide his feedings, change his diaper, give him his medications, etc. That’s why he has a one-on-one nurse at school. But if there isn’t a nurse, he can’t go…
Pneumonia For the first several years of his life, James would usually come down with pneumonia around Thanksgiving. It was such a normal occurrence that Stacy started calling November Pneumo-ember. A little play on words, combining pneumonia and November. I don’t know what changed, but for the past few years,…
School James was supposed to start summer school, but as I mentioned in my last post, his one-on-one school nurse wanted to take some time off for the summer. Unfortunately, the nursing agency has been unable to find a replacement. Until they do, it looks like James will be stuck…
Van Issues I was one of those people who wasn’t sure what they wanted to do when they grew up. After I graduated high school, I bounced around to a few local schools trying to figure it out. Before I decided to pursue a career in IT, I did about…
I realize we’re a month into the New Year, but since this is the first regular post of the year, this is my first opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year. Hope your year is going good so far. I don’t have much to post this month, but…