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Yesterday Leah had a check up – her 8 year old physical appointment. For the first time ever she had to bring in a urine sample. (I’ll pause while you put your lunch down now.) She thought I had just about gone batshit insane when I told her she had to pee in a cup, [...]

So, The Swimmy has been on her medication for a week now. The best way for me to describe this week is to tell you I’ve gotten my little Swimmy back. I cannot tell you what a difference this little blue pill with sprinkles inside has made. I will tell you that the first day [...]

Today The Swimmy started her medication for ADHD. (Wait. Did I remember to tell you she was officially diagnosed? Oh. Uh. She was. Am psychic.) After a long discussion with the pediatrician about what my understandings and expectations of the available medication are, one was chosen. I was happy to see that the nurse practitioner [...]

Dear Mystery Fever, Get off me. How is it that you have shown up two nights in a row with no other symptoms only to make me miserable with the achy joints and sensitive skin? Seriously? My hair hurts. This family is so very tired of The Sick that seems to be stalking us like [...]

I’ve said this a thousand times in a thousand situations where the possibility existed that something was wrong. Sometimes I actually meant it. But I’m done with those words now. I never liked them to begin with and tonight I put them to rest – because they’ve been said to me. Several weeks ago Benjamin [...]

At Benjamin’s 18 month check up (one month late) we discovered he had a double ear infection. Oh, is THAT why he’s been so cranky? I just thought he was being an asshole. My bad. pfft. Share

So, this penis thing? Not so into it. First off, it’s confusing. I don’t know how it works, I don’t relate to it and I have no idea it could, itself, have issues. And I certainly never knew that said area could be SO VERY SENSITIVE on a wee almost-one-year-old that even the, ahem, adjoining [...]

DUMBASS. Like I wasn’t stupid enough to say “out loud” that Benjamin was a good baby. I had to go and do it again… and say the medicine was working. IT IS NOT WORKING. IT LIES. And because it lies, Husband and I haven’t slept (again) in two nights. And Benjamite is clearly miserable. And [...]

Amen. *blows dust off of keyboard* So, HI! Now that I can see again, I can update you on the gloriousness that is modern pharmaceuticals. On Day Two of AcidWatch 2006, I thought I might kill someone. I had plans. And a weapon picked out. And even an outfit. But then, like a miracle from [...]

A wonderful thing happened to me today. Amazing. Extraordinary. I? Have ASTHMA! Yes! You have no idea how glad I was to hear this. Let me explain. For three years I’ve had this seasonal, but annoying cough. This cough has run the gamut from “every now and then” to “I’ve coughed so hard I broke [...]