Category Archives: Personal

Stop shaming us for being too busy

To-do list this week: Follow up with insurance company re: diapers appeal Follow up with DME supplier re: feed deliveries Follow up with hospital re: negotiation of large hospital bill Try for a 3rd time to get info from disability charity about completing portions of the Medicaid waiver application which I don’t understand Take Grace...

Grief like an onion

Keep falling until you can’t fall no more Until you feel like you’ve been falling for way too long Then you will know ’bout me -fink I usually know what I’m about to write when I get to this blank screen. I have a number of posts that sit in my drafts. This has been...

Retarded

?4 years ago I wrote a post called Retard. Read that one first, I guess? I’m in all these special needs groups on Facebook. There’s rarely an absence of at least one person losing their minds because they heard/saw someone say “retard”. I recently saw a woman posting a huge load of screenshots of a public showdown she...

Deck the halls with broken femurs

“I have little bones” -Dolly Parton From our family to yours, a few ideas for holiday activities: Decorate cookies Ice skating Caroling Family game nights Watch your daughter suffer the most excruciating pain possible for a week before finding out she’s broken both femurs Ya you heard that right. Grace broke both femurs during a seizure...

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