My blog turned it's 100,000th hit earlier tonight (80,000 of which have been since Jan 2011). I want to THANK everyone for taking the time to read and share in my families story. I'm really proud of this blog and I hope to continue writing long into the future. I feel pretty good about this because my goal was to share our story with as many people as were willing to listen. I wanted to reach those struggling like we are and let them at least know that they aren't alone. I want people not directly touched my Autism to learn enough to know they should learn more. I had hoped I help spread awareness and contribute to making the world a better, more understanding place for my kids.... I really appreciate…

Emmett has strep throat and a sinus infection. We had no idea it was that bad. He can't tell us and wasn't showing any signs of a sore throat. We have to break through this language barrier and communicate with our son. He should have to suffer without being able to tell us.

I wanted to kind of get back on track with the blog today. Since I have to be up cause Lizze had to take Emmett to the doctors I figured now as good a time as any. In the video included in the post you will see Lizze simply trying to get Emmett dressed in order to leave for the doctors. This actually went on for a few minutes before I started recording it. Now normally I would have jumped right in (or Lizze would have jumped in to help me if it were the other way around) to help her. However, we wanted you all to see just one of the "smaller" struggles we face with Emmett John. This is very typical of trying to get him dressed. As…

Gavin is driving me absolutely out of my mind. He is regressing and has no memory anymore. He gets back into the doctors on Wednesday. Wednesday feels like a really long time to wait. He doesn't listen and then claims he "doesn't remember". I don't know what to believe because he a VERY LONG history of manipulation. However, he does clearily appear to be regressing....so...I just don't know. Lizze took Emmett to the doctors a few minutes ago. Elliott came down a few minutes ago and asked me to hook up his Leapster to the TV in his room. I told him I would but he needs to make sure that his room is clean first. I told him that "I would then com up and set it up for…

I'm down for the count. I've been knocked out by the flu. I've been sick a handful of times in the last decade. I have some type of freakishly strong immune system. However, when I do get sick...I GET SICK. Tyically, I end up in the hospital in pretty bad shape. I've had at least 1 REALLY close call and I almost didn't make it. For those in the "know", it took 6 liter of saline to bring my BP up over 100 systolic.  That's A LOT of fluids. It always makes me really nervous when I start to not feel well because it can go very badly. My biggest fear was that I was going to get sick while Lizze was trying to recover from surgery. She made it…

What happens when special needs parents get sick? I've com down with the flu and Lizze has been fighting the same thing. Gavin and Elliott were at school and Emmett was home sick. Neither one of us were in any position to take care of ourselves let alone 3 special needs kids. Fortunately for us my mom was able to the boys up from school and hang out with them until bedtime. Usually we just have to push through being sick, which is really hard to do sometimes. What do you do when you are sick?

As the morning goes on the worse and worse I feel. I think I finally caught what the boys had/have..... sigh