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Yearly Archives: 2012

Something To Look Forward To

Saturday, February 11, 2012

[tattoo by Shane ONeill]
Rye told me yesterday that when he gets older he’s going to put a tattoo of my face on his chest.
Ummmm no, I say.
Yes, mom, I’m doing it, he says.  You and I are so close and that way you will always be with me and everyone will know how much you [...]

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The Long And Winding Road

Thursday, February 9, 2012

[photo by vaggelisf]
We met with the new psychiatrist today.  Just Don and I.  The first meeting is just us, then the second meeting just Rye, then the third just Don and I again.    In this meeting Don and I recounted the history of our journey with Rye and the symptoms and the diagnoses and the [...]

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Adjustments

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

[this piece is called 'Changing Raven V' by Rick Bartow.  it can be purchased here.]
Things are looking up.
We have made some adjustments to the school schedule.  We have hired an educational consultant.  We have pushed up our appointment with the new psychiatrist.  I now have a therapist who I look forward to seeing every week.  [...]

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Precarious

Friday, February 3, 2012

Here we are for the past week +.  I am the giraffe/elephant.  Rye is the bear.  I am exhausted.
After a good long stretch of stability, we have hit a bump in the road.  This past week Rye morphed into a person I have not seem in a very long time with symptoms I have not [...]

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Dr. Drew Show: Tics in Teen Girls Caused By Conversion Disorder?

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Did you see the Dr. Drew show yesterday?  It was one of the most disturbing things I have seen in a long time.  Don and I were flipping around channels and somehow landed on this show and we could not stop watching it once we started.  It was incredible.  The show was about 12 teen [...]

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What Can I Do To Help?

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Over the years in raising Rye I have learned a thing or two about a thing or two.   Not through therapy, not through books, not through the advice of doctors,  just through hands-on day-to-day dealing with the issues, needs, and complexities of raising a child with bipolar disorder and seeing what works and what doesn’t.  [...]

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This and That

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Rye is skiing today and Don is catching up on sleep so I have a chance to sit and write and think.  Ahhhh.  I’m feeling myself exhale.  Lovely.  Rye’s been sick with a chest cold the past few days so I have not had much time to myself and it’s nice now to have a [...]

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Arthritis

Friday, January 6, 2012

Or, ‘the thritis’ as Don and I call it.  One of my new challenges as we begin 2012 is that I’m getting arthritis.  Or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is.   It started late last year and it seems to be a steady part of my life now.  And it’s making me [...]

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