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Adventures in Mattyland: September 2012
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Monday, September 3, 2012. What Having a Child with Cerebral Palsy Means to Us. Today is the first ever World Cerebral Palsy Day! Matthew was formally diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy back in June. Part of me always suspected it, so I broached the subject with our neurologist and he agreed that he fit all the criteria and we added the diagnosis to the permanent record at that time. We work hard with our therapists. On not being tha...
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Adventures in Mattyland: September 2014
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Thursday, September 18, 2014. It started innocently enough. Matthew and I were up early on a Saturday morning, Joe was out running errands, and I was desperately needing a break from endless episodes of Jake and the Neverland Pirates. So, I fired up YouTube in search of cartoons from the eighties that Joe and I grew up watching. The next day we went to Nonna and Nonno G's house for Sunday dinner. While we were there they rem...
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Adventures in Mattyland: March 2013
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The Not-So Scary Pre-K IEP Meeting. What if I accepted the terms and I should have asked for more services? Was this a good meeting? Could we have gotten more services? Sunday, March 3, 2013. At A Loss for Words.But Not Anymore. A certain little boy will be turning three in the next couple of weeks and I am so behind on party planning and shopping. Armed with my always present list, we were off to ...
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Adventures in Mattyland: June 2013
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Long Time, No Post. It has been over 2 months since my last post here. I've missed writing and hope that you've missed checking in on our little family. The pH probe showed severe levels of acid reflux that his Prevacid wasn't even coming close to touching. Also when filling out his probe journal, Matthew's nurse suggested that I include all of the times he would have an episode of Infantile Spasms&#...
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Adventures in Mattyland: February 2013
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Saturday, February 16, 2013. I have been off the writing grid since early January. I have popped in from time to time to check comments and reply, but my heart hasn't been into writing. I have been feeling pretty low and not really sure what to write. So, here it goes:. Thanks to our pitiful health insurance, the only way he can receive speech therapy and any help with communication technology training is through the public scho...
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Adventures in Mattyland: July 2014
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. 365 days.one whole year. That's how long it has been since I sat down to write here. In that time we had new babies born in our extended family, we lost family members we love. We started a new school year. We had a grand total of 4 hospital admissions last summer between June and September. And on that last admission on September 13th, we darn near lost our boy. Seeing what happened to my baby, and runn...
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Adventures in Mattyland: July 2013
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Thursday, July 4, 2013. Just when we thought we were in the clear to unpack our hospital bags and settle into our new routine with the g-tube and pump, Matthew decided to throw us a new curve ball. He pulled out his own g-tube. I continued getting him ready to leave for our now later appointment and started to clean his g-tube site and change his gauze when I saw this:. Radiology results were inconclusive, but when dye was injec...
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Adventures in Mattyland: Turtle Power
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Our real life adventures in loving and parenting a with special needs child. Thursday, September 18, 2014. It started innocently enough. Matthew and I were up early on a Saturday morning, Joe was out running errands, and I was desperately needing a break from endless episodes of Jake and the Neverland Pirates. So, I fired up YouTube in search of cartoons from the eighties that Joe and I grew up watching. The next day we went to Nonna and Nonno G's house for Sunday dinner. While we were there they rem...
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