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   Nov 06

Stress Fractures.

I am feeling very frustrated. Angry. Confused. And just generally stressed out lately. I posted before that Cam had finally started toilet training and for a few weeks he was doing amazing. With reminders he would have very few accidents. Then he started school and got sick (just a stomach bug) and was set back […]

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   Sep 12

Off to a great start to the school year?!?!?

This past week Cameron started big boy school (Junior Kindergarten).  He will be attending 5 days a week full days, but for the first week he only went Wednesday and Friday as an introduction. Everything went okay. He didn’t want to go into class in the mornings and didn’t want to come home at night. […]

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   Aug 28

Update on well….everyone.

Nate is doing well after passing the plum pit 2 weeks ago. Things seem to be evening out but he is a little backed up but we are giving his boy time to try to deal with it but may be upping the laxatives again soon. All in all though he is doing well and […]

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   Aug 16

It’s the pits!

So on Thursday I went to the farmers market and while walking around I gave the boys plums to eat (they love them). After a couple of minutes I asked them for the pits and Cam gave me his and Nate just told me “Gone”. I figured he had droped it on the ground. Friday […]

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   May 18

Stress or symptoms?

So on Monday I went to my midwife appointment and she told me my blood pressure was up and that she wanted me to go to the hospital for some monitoring and testing. So I went. All my blood and urine tests came back fine but my pressure was still up. It wasn’t to high […]

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   May 15

Update on Nate.

I haven’t posted in a while because I have been afraid to jinx things but well here goes. Nate is doing great. Since his last botox we had a lot of problems and pain and things got really bad. We ended up starting him on Flagyl, mineral oil and miralax. After a little while we […]

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   Mar 22

Genetics and GI.

Yesterday I was contacted by Sick Kids to book an appointment with the genetics department for Nate. We have been on the wait list for near a year now. It turns out that they had a cancellation so we will be going in next Monday. We will be looking into the possible cause of Nate’s […]

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   Feb 01

Communication problems.

I am confused. Nate has speech delays. The other week Nate and I went to see the speech pathologist. I asked her if the delay could be apraxia of speech. She said it was possible but in order to get a diagnosis we would have to get it from a medical doctor like our pediatrician. […]

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   Aug 08

My Toothless Wonder.

I just discovered today that Nathanial my Toothless Wonder is no longer toothless (age 22 months). He went in to the hospital on July 26, 2010 with 3 teeth the two front bottom ones and his top left eye tooth. He came home with six teeth. He now has his four top front teeth and […]

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