I should clarify that. I do feel physical pain. You can hardly avoid that when you live with Fibromyalgia.
I don’t feel anything about learning that my stepfather has esophageal cancer. We found out today. I don’t feel any emotions about it at all. I don’t understand that.
I do feel emotions about other people and other [...]
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
I don’t feel anything
Posted in Cancer, Day to day, Family, General, Health, Life on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heart Palpitations and a Seizure
Posted in Day to day, Family, General, Health, Heart palpitations, Hospital, Life, Seizure, Uninsured on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The last two weeks of August brought more excitement than I needed!
Due to the heart palpitations that had caused my husband to be hospitalized for observation, he ended up being scheduled for a number of cardiac tests. First he was given a 24-hour monitor to wear. It made him aware of every palpitation because he [...]
Depressed in No Man’s Land
Posted in Day to day, Family, General, Lakota, Lakota friends, Life, Mental Health, Native American, PTSD on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just spoke to my friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 2000 miles away from me, for about an hour on the phone. (My husband will love that bill.) But there was no way I could hang up.
My friend lost her 16 year old daughter in mid-March. She died at a friend’s [...]
All Over the Map
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Day to day, Family, Fibromyalgia, General, Health, Life, Pawtucket Red Sox, Red Sox, Sports, Travel, Vacation on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is going to be one of those hodge-podge kind of posts. There’s a lot going on around here.
First of all, I was without a car for a little over a week. Not because there was anything wrong with my car, of course. It was my son – the guy with Asperger’s – who had [...]
Stupidity Can Pay
Posted in Day to day, Ethics, Family, Fibromyalgia, General, Life, Weight loss on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll just bet that title got a lot of attention.
The other day I noted that I had taken a bit of a detour and that was one reason I hadn’t posted for a bit. I would like to be able to blame that detour on fibro fog or senility (I am, after all, closing in [...]
Apartments and Asperger’s
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Day to day, Family, General, Life on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My 27 year old son has Asperger’s Syndrome. If you’re familiar with the disorder, you know that many adults with Asperger’s still live at home or in group home settings. It isn’t that they aren’t intelligent or capable of taking care of themselves most of the time. It’s that they can’t navigate the neurotypical world [...]
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Posted in Day to day, Family, Fibromyalgia, General, Life on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t believe this. I thought it was gone. I wasn’t paying attention and hit the wrong key — and supposedly deleted this blog!!
But here it is, safe and sound. I don’t get it – but I am immensely grateful. I had a second blog for a short period of time – it served it’s [...]
Mother’s Day Fiasco
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Bi-Polar Disorder, Day to day, Family, Fibromyalgia, General, Life, Weight loss on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have two children, so I qualify to celebrate Mother’s Day. But most recent years, I’ve celebrated quietly with my husband.
I have a daughter who will be 30 in a month and a son who is 27. My son, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, still lives at home – though we are working on that with [...]
Apartment Hunting with Asperger’s
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, Day to day, Family, General, Life on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My son has reached the point where, at 27 years old, he wants to move out of our house – Asperger’s or not. Gratefully, the group Asperger’s Assn of New England (AANE) has a new program to assist adult Aspies with major life decisions. My son has met with a counselor of sorts on a [...]
A Mother’s Grief on Pine Ridge
Posted in Family, General, Health, Lakota, Lakota friends, Life, Native American on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post is in memory of
Emily Ashmore
Born Oct 15, 1992
Died Mar 16, 2009
Monday morning – fairly early on the east coast – I got a call from my friend who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It was even earlier there, in the central time zone, so this call was most unexpected.
I could tell she [...]
