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Guest Blog for CABF: Letting Stuff Go
My parents were with us over the holidays. It was a nice time – they live in Arizona and us in Chicago, so we haven’t had the ability to spend the holidays together in five years. My parents understand Tim’s condition well and do a great job of understanding how to handle his moods and idiosyncracies,…
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Loping
Photo by Hey Paul Last Thursday, Tim called his regular daily call, and said he’d had a really bad day at school, but didn’t want to talk about it. Made me wonder why he called, but I had been expecting a call like that. A few days earlier, his case worker called and said he’d…
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Tim’s Story – My Guest Blog on Our Journey Through Life
How do you explain when it began? I didn’t know at the time what was going on. But hindsight, as the saying goes, is 20/20. I often wonder if we’d not taken things our pediatrician said as gospel, not questioned a specialist who made a judgment call, pressed more for information, if we wouldn’t be…
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Missed
Photo by bottled_void I am not happy. I miss Tim more than usual. And even though our last phone conversation (by the way, follow up on my last post, he’s doing ok, just “busy mom, gosh…”) went fine, I can’t help feeling that I need to be near him. I wonder if, for the first…
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Jen’s Blog: Snow and Tornadoes
Great blog post by Jen on, oh, all sorts of things, but mainly the “tornado” anxiety can can cause. You can read all of Jen’s blog by clicking the link to “More Than Words” under the “Blogs I Read” section down and to the right.
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Loughner and the Stigma
The army of armchair psychiatrists have weighed in on the tragic shootings in Tucson last Saturday. Arizona Shooting Tragic Reminder of Dangers of Mental Illness – WWLT, New Orleans Mental Illness Claims 9, Wounds 10 – Some clueless idiot on Technorati Why Are The Mentally Ill Still Bearing Arms? – Time Magazine It’s no wonder…
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Four Days
My New Year’s Resolution – well, let’s say goal, because I hate the connotation of what “resolution” has come to mean – is to blog at least once a week, preferably twice. This first week back into the swing of work after the first two weeks in a row I’ve had off since I was…
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Refreshing
We won’t know if CABF has won the grant until January 3, but as of 11:35 PM EST last night, we were in second, which is good enough for the grant. Lots of people worked tirelessly for the last 60 days to get this grant from Pepsi – this is sort of how we looked…
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The Holiday Recap, and Happy 2011
Christmas has come and gone. My mother remarked, and she’s absolutely right, that Christmas comes in with a roar and fades away quietly. And quiet was what we had for Christmas, blissfully. I picked up Tim from “school” on the 23rd, and he was packed and eager to go. He made a mention of Thanksgiving…
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the bunny years: Glee and Discrimination
the bunny years: Glee and Discrimination – a friend’s open letter to Ryan Murphy, Fox, and Glee, on their flippant use of the word ‘bipolar’ as a slur.