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Eventful Day

  • Posted on June 27, 2008
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Last night I got home from pottery class just in time to see Declan at bedtime. As I tweeted, the boys were doing "bedtime stories" from the Oriental Trading Company catalog, and in between reading about coconut bras and curly straws, Declan started filling me…
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Things To Do Before I Go, Part 1

  • Posted on April 18, 2008
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It's Filching Friday! And I am filching from the mighty Mighty Girl herself. Maggie ran a series a while back where she listed out the Top 100 things she wanted to do before she left this earth, now listed on the main page of her…
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

  • Posted on November 29, 2007
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No, this post is not about the Republican debate last night. Although, had I bothered to watch, my guess is the title would be pretty appropriate for that, too.This post is about the hellacious night I had with Declan 2 Tuesdays ago, while Bryan was…
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A Bundle of Major Diseases

  • Posted on October 22, 2007
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I swear, if a bunch of doctors didn't agree on all these diagnoses I would be willing to submit my photo for the definition of "hypochondriac" in the dictionary. I am gonna talk about another one of them right now, and it's in the vaginal…
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Becoming Type A-

  • Posted on May 1, 2007
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I have always been The Planner. The Thinker. The Worrier. The Organizer. The Scheduler.But ever since taking my meds for the night terrors (which have been non-existent since January, thank-you-very-much), things have been slipping. In mostly a good way.It is SUCH a frickin' relief to…
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Officially on Crazy Meds

  • Posted on December 7, 2006
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Does that make me a crazy person? Or just a person ready to accept defeat, and get help wherever they can?So, I met with the PsychRN yesterday. My therapist warned me she wasn't a "people person" and she was right, but she definitely seemed like…
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Diagnosis

  • Posted on October 12, 2006
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In a nutshell, I have, drum roll please... um, night terrors. OK, OK, technically, he diagnosed me with "Arousal Disorder." But if you look at this description of arousal disorders from the Stanford site, night terrors are simply a sub-set of arousal disorders....What are Arousal…
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