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Our PKU Life: July 2013

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Monday, July 29, 2013. My Son Has Autism. Note: I want to apologize for being such a blog slacker. The main issue has been that Carson damaged my laptop charger, and since it is the only computer I currently have access to, it is a very daunting task to get it charged up enough to write. I soon hope to have a new charger and get back to more frequent posting. Thank you for your patience! Yes, my son Carson has autism. You already know that? Of course you do!

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Our PKU Life: June 2014

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Monday, June 2, 2014. A Day in the Life with PKU: Blood Draws. A vital part of managing the PKU diet treatment is testing the blood to find out phenylalanine levels. According to our clinic at UAB, the acceptable normal range for blood phe is between 2 and 6 (don't ask me to get technical, let's just look at the numbers! He was indeed diagnosed with classic PKU at 10 days old. This is Carson's blood drawing kit. I keep cotton, Band-Aids, lancets,. 65279;W...

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Our PKU Life: PKU Awareness Day 2014

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Wednesday, December 3, 2014. PKU Awareness Day 2014. I do a lot of math, weighing and measuring food, and calculating phe intake. I do a lot of planning, like deciding what Carson will eat when we go to a family dinner, or church, or a friend's house, or a restaurant. Now I am wondering what Allison will be like when she gets older. Will she be as easy to please with the diet as Carson is? Will Allison be like Maggie and only want what is on my plate? Me, You and...

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Our PKU Life: The Forgotten One

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Monday, February 23, 2015. None of us were happy about spending the night in the hospital, but Children's Hospital was wonderful. At least we were in an awesome place with awesome people caring for us. Everything went smoothly, and Maggie handled it all like a boss, like the princess she is. So sweet, mostly easy-going, even minimal whining! Next week she gets this last cast removed and she will be free, finally, after six weeks! At 9 months old. She loves Disney...

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Our PKU Life: April 2014

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The sky is the limit for this boy! And he is potty-trained. All by himself. He tells me when he needs to go. None of these things did I dream possibly would happen within a year. At least not all of them collectively. He cracks me up. He loves going to the doctor. Dr. Descartes declared that Carson was "awesome", and taught him to say so. And Carson is definitely AWESOME! I want to stress again to all parents out there who have been giv...

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Our PKU Life: April 2015

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Autism Awareness 2015: We Survived Kindergarten! As this year's Autism Awareness Month comes to a close, I want to stress the most important things that I would like other people to know:. 3 Getting help (services like private therapy, school interventions) is the number one key to managing autism. There are professionals trained to help your child, and most of all, they teach you how to help them too! My child never ceases to amaze me!

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Our PKU Life: Welcome to Our World

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Welcome to Our World. On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, our newest bundle of joy, Allison Lynne Rice, surprised us all by deciding to make her grand entrance into the world. I dedicate the first section of this post to my labor story, so if you don't want to read about that, skip on down to the next section. One of the best pictures of my pregnant belly,. On Mother's Day, about a month before. I tried getting up and moving around. I deci...

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Our PKU Life: May 2014

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. Saturday, May 31, 2014. A Day in the Life with PKU: Ordering and Purchasing Low Protein Foods. People who need help can try for grants or samples or other assistance that is currently available. I began my journey of ordering low protein foods for Carson by visiting www.pkunews.org. Just to give you a sample of what we order, I will share with you the invoices from the last orders I placed for some of Carson's main staples. Pockets - Cheesy Broccoli. I ordered 4 ...

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Our PKU Life: Birthmarks

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Tales of the Rice Family life experience. I was surprised how much I didn't know! I also included at the end my personal experience of what it is like to have one so visible and how it affects my life. I made my speech teacher cry. When I was about 11 years old, I was entering the phase of life when one starts to care what others think. We don't realize when we are that age that everyone who has ever lived is probably self-conscious about. Or, "Did you talk back to your husband? This is NOT me! I went in...

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Our Beachside Life: January 2012

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Little snip-its from our family life. Sunday, January 15, 2012. New Year, New Location, Same Great Blogger! So in keeping with my goal of being a better blogger, I have moved my blog to WordPress. For a few reasons, but the main one being the ease of use and ability to have a direct link to my blog – ballardfamilylife.com. I am in the process of converting over to the new site and format and I hope that you will follow me over to my new blogging home. Tuesday, January 10, 2012. 12 Goals in 2012. 9 Have a...