We didn’t get to church this week. Thaddeus was sick, though he would beg to differ. However, this child, who shoots out of bed at the crack of dawn every day of my life, slept until 9am. Sleeping = sick for him. I felt bad, because I was supposed to teach Sunday School, but I didn’t want to sprea ...

_{Posted by 136 days ago} Caroline

You know how your body gets so tired, that your eyes go blurry? I am having that right now. So please excuse any grammatical and spelling errors that are certain to happen here. This past week, we’ve taken turns passing around some sort of virus. It’s gone through all of the kids, and I’m halfway ...

_{Posted by 137 days ago} Caroline

I feel like I’m in a dream. My life is in a lull as I adjust to yet another new normal. On the one hand, I’m not feeling anything that hasn’t already been felt by hundreds of other people, but on the other hand, it’s ME and MY LIFE, and it’s new FOR ME. So I get really annoyed with people who met s ...

_{Posted by 140 days ago} Caroline

So my BRAIN sometimes FORGETS to tell my body to BREATHE. Which is why I don't sleep very well. It's completely neurological, and, well, there's not a whole lot they can do about it. THEREFORE: nothing in my life will change with this information, except that I can now add it to the list of ...

_{Posted by 144 days ago} Caroline

I’ve been in hiding for the last week or so. It’s hard to describe how truly awful I feel right now, and I feel like nobody wants to hear it or cares. You see, I feel bad all the time, so when I feel REALLY bad, it just seems like overkill. But then when I think about it, I don’t complain or a ...

_{Posted by 146 days ago} Caroline

I think I failed my sleep study. All I know is that after I got hooked up to everything, I laid in the bed at the sleep clinic, wide awake. Then when I finally fell asleep, it was MY normal. Which is to say that I toss and turn all night. (I can’t help it. It is what it is.) And this morn ...

_{Posted by 148 days ago} Caroline

When Daniel got off the bus today, he told me that he had a bad day. When I asked him why, he said it was because he got a yellow. (If you’re not familiar with this behavior system, Green=Good, Yellow=Warning, Red=Bad) And when I asked why he got a yellow, he said it was because he hit someone ...

_{Posted by 153 days ago} Caroline

I didn’t do a video diary today because it’s a holiday, which means that the DadGuy is home, and you know what’s really awkward? Trying to record a video when someone is making faces and rolling their eyes at you. YOU WIN DADGUY, YOU WIN. Tomorrow though, my house should be almost silent because S ...

_{Posted by 156 days ago} Caroline

So here is the thing: There are too many NEW THINGS happening inside my body at once, which is making every part of me hate all the other parts of me, causing a war to end all wars. So the NEW PLAN is to revert to the way things were for the time being, because the system is shutting down. ERGO ...

_{Posted by 157 days ago} Caroline

Kindergarten Orientation was tonight. Daniel is going to do so good in school. Meanwhile, there were a few “high maintenance” parents in there. See, at our school, they take the kids on a little bus ride, to practice for field trips. And while the kids are riding the bus, the parents go back ...

_{Posted by 160 days ago} Caroline

So... you know how YESTERDAY I admitted that I actually WAS having side effects? Yeah. Well, my neurologist is NOT A FAN of that. Especially considering that I'm only on 20% of the actual dose. And APPARENTLY, when you take a medication, they would like for that to FIX an issue, And not mak ...

_{Posted by 161 days ago} Caroline

Want to know what’s awesome? Thinking that you are feeling GREAT and that you aren’t having any side effects to your new medications, and then realizing that YES, in fact, YOU ARE. And these new symptoms are completely and TOTALLY related to a condition for which you are already being treated. Oh ...

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