Okay.  So the doctor visit was mostly helpful.  Here’s what I was told.  The rash (because of it’s stages), looks like chicken pox–except it’s not anywhere on her trunk.  It could be hand, foot and mouth–except it’s not anywhere in her mouth.  We are left […]

My baby has come down with step throat.  It’s the first time she’s had it.  She had an ear infection once before and had amoxicillin for it.  She’s had three doses of the antibiotic for the strep throat.  We were sitting in church today and […]

Torn That’s how I feel.  Torn. Baby Girl was evaluated in speech, gross motor and fine motor skills and in sensory/tactile sensitivities.  She qualifies for services. She had her first evaluation with the case manager a couple of weeks ago.  We schedule another evaluation and […]

So I was thinking about Baby Girl’s milk allergy and how it affects the skin on her legs (they always feel rough).  Acroboy has similar feeling skin on his legs.  I decided to take his older brother and him into the allergist to see if […]

Baby Girl had her second GI scope today.  She was a lot grumpier this time around and the grumpiness lasted longer than it did before.  The doctor showed me the pictures and things look good, but she’ll send the biopsies off for evaluation so we […]

Remember last week when I posted that Whirlwind was complaining about going on the scout camp out?  And that I mentioned it was an important camp out for both boys? Whirlwind sabotaged his brother.  I just don’t know if it was intentional or not. One […]

My boys belong to a church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America troop.  It has been a good experience for them.  We have an upcoming camp out, and once again Whirlwind is declaring loudly he doesn’t want to go.  He does this just about every scout camp […]

Over the last few years we’ve spent many, many hours at our favorite Autism medical center. We’ve had evaluations, therapy sessions, meetings with licensed clinical social workers and physicians of all sorts.  In the last year we began to participate in a study for siblings […]

We had a follow up appointment with the pediatric gastroenterologist.  We are going to continue to treat baby girl for acid reflux and then we will rescope her in August.  When we weighed her I was extremely happy to find out Baby Girl has finally […]

Did you ever watch GI Joe cartoons as a kid?  I’m a child of the 80’s and I loved to watch GI Joe every afternoon.  Every cartoon would end with some type of lesson or moral message and the phrase, “And knowing is half the […]