Doctors

Mama Guilt from Listening to “Experts”

July 14, 2009

Background info: we’ve pulled out lots of the J-man’s old toys for Little E to play with/watch lately. (Little E won’t be little for much longer. Maybe we should just call him Dale Jr.) When the J-man was about 21 months old, we had a “full evaluation” from the county. They came to our house [...]

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The Clinical Definitions of Autism, Asperger’s, and PDD-NOS

February 19, 2009

As a preamble to the upcoming sequel to “What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?” (coming very soon!), I thought we should first go straight to the source in which the diagnoses are defined – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fourth Edition or DSM-IV. (Technically, it’s DSM-IV-TR, where TR stands for ‘text revision’, [...]

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How Much is a Bed Worth?

February 9, 2009

One of the bazillion transitions we have to think about on the road to Baby #2 is what to do about the fact that the J-Man is still sleeping in the crib we planned to use for the new baby. The original idea was to convert his crib into a toddler bed (we have the [...]

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You Kinda Get Used to Weeks Like This

February 5, 2009

I want to say this has been a crazy week, but I suppose it’s really just par for the course. On Tuesday, the J-Man had a dentist appointment. I don’t think I need to give any more setup to this story than that; it speaks for itself. After being in the waiting room for an [...]

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Teaching the Doctor

January 29, 2009

I had another check-up the other day – another one of those where I go in, do the normal “pee in a cup” thing, they weigh me and gasp that I still haven’t gained weight, then I wait forever for the doctor to come in and check the heartbeat before I leave. Wooh… However, everything [...]

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He’s the One They Call Dr. Feelgood…

December 3, 2008

One line summary – J-Man has a rip-roaring ear infection. Blech. It’s always alarming when you see your kid’s teacher’s cell phone number pop up on the caller ID. They don’t send kids home from our Pre-K unless they’re practically near death. The teachers pride themselves on being able to handle anything, and largely they [...]

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Wherein I Lose It

October 29, 2008

I am working like crazy on a report for work. When I say a report, I actually mean the software behind that nice Excel report that you get – the software that is going to drive me to the insane asylum all by itself. My boss even says “this shows how immature this software is” [...]

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More “Why I’ve not been blogging”

October 6, 2008

So, this getting old stuff? It sucks. After our super-awesome trip to WV (7 hours each way in the car, PLUS nobody lives less than 40 minutes from each other!), I was pretty tired. Let’s say very tired. Let’s say… I went to the doctor on Tuesday morning because I couldn’t catch my breath doing [...]

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