January 2011
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3 Month Scans
Reese had her 3-month scans late last week. So I called Sick Kids at about 11 this morning, on the way back from a client meeting. I left a message with our nurse practitioner then drove home. Along the 401 I roller-coastered from a “pppffft, of course everything will be fine” to “oh dear god, [...]
Did it go as Planned?
Not quite. Why is it when something you expect to go smoothly blows up in your face and something you expect to be horrifying is a breeze. Today Reese had her MIBG scan. This entails Reese lying on a table with a machine/scanner/thingy moving over and around her. She has to lie still while it’s [...]
One Poke, Not Two
Reese has picked up a nasty cough. I’m talkin’ N-A-S-T-Y. Like you, not Reese, are the one gagging when she coughs. She’s now “that kid.” The one who I always wondered why the mom just didn’t keep home so that her germ infested kid wouldn’t infect my kid. The one whose mom I wanted to [...]
Ahoy Mate!
Look out skippa, we’re goin’ on a cruise! A few weeks a go I got a call from the Children’s Wish Foundation with the awesome news that Reese has been granted a wish. Since this is not the Mommies’ Wish Foundation (I’d go to Paris) or the Daddies’ Wish Foundation (we’d be going to Texas [...]
Looking Ahead
What is it with Christmas decorations. In December they look so charming, so kitschy, so fa-la-la-la-la festive. In January they look so cheesy. I’m ornamented-out. In fact, I stopped watering the tree the day after Christmas. I figured I got it to where I needed it to be. Now I’m just afraid when I walk [...]
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