Me and My Spasticity

Indoctrination

November 5, 2009

I never claimed my methods were subtle…

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Back To School Battlefield

July 27, 2009

Dear Target Store Manager: Hello Mr. Manager sir. It’s me.  The mom of four who visited your store today.  I know you’re probably busy ironing your khaki pants and red shirts so I won’t keep you long.  I just wanted to send along a helpful hint that may save you a few dollars in the [...]

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31 Going On 90

July 1, 2009

I’ve been saying things lately that make me feel old. They do more than make me feel old actually. The fact that I say them is enough to qualify me. Not five minutes ago, these very words came out of my mouth: “I’m not running a diner here.” I said it response to Kennedy when [...]

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A Tonsillectomy In Review

May 14, 2009

It’s official.  We are now a household that includes just eight tonsils. Cass was a little champ for her surgery.  And there was only a fleeting instant during which I thought my legs might crumble beneath me.  It was as they wheeled her bed through the OR doors that we weren’t allowed through.  Jeff and [...]

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Minus 2 Tonsils

May 12, 2009

Cassidy will fall asleep tonight with her tonsils intact for the very last time.  Tomorrow morning we will head to the hospital where a highly skilled doctor will remove them.  Ideally the anesthesiologist will be equally gifted and will successfully render my little girl unconscious during the surgery and then just as successfully wake her [...]

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Not *Those* Kind of Brownies

May 5, 2009

Yeah, so teacher appreciation week. I have a great deal of respect for teachers.  Especially Cassidy’s teacher because Lord only knows how she manages Cassidy andtwenty other kids.  Heck.  Cassidy alone is the equivalent of twenty kids. So, like I said, I’m all about the teacher appreciation. But then this afternoon I got an email [...]

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Darcie’s Laws of the Universe. Undocumented Until Now.

May 4, 2009

You’re probably familiar with Murphy’s Law right?  You know the one: Anything that can go wrong will. Seeing as how I fall on the glass-half-empty side of life I tend to be a believer. And in the course of my thirty-one point five years I’ve garnered insight into other laws of the universe. In honor [...]

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