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Connor's Song

http://connorssong.blogspot.com

This is a blog about a military mom parenting a little boy with a life-threatening genetic condition.

• Added on: Feb 2nd, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Connorsmom
• Listed in: Family Medicine
• Tags: parenting hearing loss special needs birth defects heart defects chromosomal disorder

Recent Posts

• In Which I Find Ways To Occupy My Time

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 01:37 in travel, family, garden, cat, death, holiday

  Thanks, everybody, for your kind words. It's hard for me to be here and not in Texas, as in addition to the Feed Everybody gene I inherited from my parents I also got the Run Over There And Help gene that kicks in whenever something like this happen...

• In Which I Remember My Grandfather

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 09:08 in family, death

  When I think of my grandfather, I think of Christmas.Every year around Christmas time when I was growing up my grandfather would adjust his glasses, pull on his heavy red plaid flannel coat and his boots, and we’d head down to the local Christmas p...

• In Which We Have a Day of Highs and Lows

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 23:50 in Rant, recovery, afghanistan, injury, deployment, neurology, seizures, ied

  This afternoon Jeremy, Connor and I drove up to the hospital where they did his surgeries for his big follow-up appointment. They took some x-rays and said that everything looks like it's doing well. Then they gave us some great news; Jer can start...

• In Which Connor Bundles Up

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 01:25 in cat, neurology, parenting special needs

  No call from the neurologist today. No seizures today either thankfully.Today I took Connor to the store and bought him some new heavy winter clothing. I got him a new hat, as he's outgrown all of the ones we had that tie under the chin. We have s...

• In Which We Have Another Quiet Day

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 00:06 in recovery, injury, seizures, doctor's appointments, parenting special needs

  Connor had another quiet day today, thankfully.I'm still in that jumpy, paranoid state I get in whenever Connor has a seizure. It takes me a while to quit freaking out every time he looks at me with a half-way funny expression on his face. Really rig...

• In Which We Have A Quiet Day

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 00:03 in medication, neurology, seizures, parenting special needs

  No seizures today, thankfully.Connor's hospital doesn't have a neurologist on call on the weekends, so I called and left a message that they should get on Monday. In the meantime we went into the pediatrician's office, which thankfully is open on Sa...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

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fantastic i read it every day its wonderfull, happy, full of hope, thank you Jess

Posted: March 4th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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