Month: April 2008
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Detour page 3!
Three nurses barged into the room armed with needles, monitors and catheters. Bill moved out of the way as they gathered around Sarah looking for ‘good’ veins, hooking up electrodes. “This looks like a good one.” One nurse said examining her arm. “Be careful, they tend to roll on these little ones.” They pulled out…
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Perspective
Okay, first off, Team Sammer Hammer ROCKS! The scene was a little chaotic but a big group of us managed to meet up and have a lovely walk together. We lost Amanda, Ava, and Amanda’s Mom (so sorry!). We had a brief but desperate disappearance of BoBo Baby and finshed three miles in a record…
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Detour page 2!
We filed into a small room with a nurse and a computer. “So, what’s going on with Sarah?” she asked. “We don’t know.” I answered. I felt flustered and defensive. Sarah didn’t have any identifiable symptoms. Buggy eyes…how do you explain buggy eyes? We had been worried about Sarah for a while. I felt so…
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You raise me up
So, I’m having a day….I really am. Samantha has been battling with a urinary tract infection and as a result I have to cath her a couple times a day to empty her bladder properly. The whole process- an infection that won’t go away, seizures, sticking a tube up my daughter’s ‘parts’ has hit me…
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The Detour
Hi Everyone! I am starting to post snippets from my book, The Detour. Pull out your red pen and let me know what you think. I sat in the emergency room at Children’s Hospital assessing my neighbors. Young mothers with runny-nosed toddlers, large families who didn’t speak English arguing amongst themselves…a TV in the corner…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 