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Introducing the newest member to our family

Over the Christmas holiday, we added a member to our family. Her name is Ruby and she's a two year old Chorkie. We've always had two dogs and we've only had Maggie since having to rehome Bella, our Boxer because she became extremely aggressive with Maggie. We had no choice, because the dog fighting was getting really bad and it had become dangerous for the kids. We tried everything to avoid having to rehome her but nothing helped. It was heartbreaking because we'd had her for a few years without a single problem. One day, she decided that she wanted to be the dominant female and began challenging Maggie. This was totally a massive personality shift for Bella and these fights were always provoked by her. They always ended bloody…

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January 3, 2018

Autism Parenting Insight / Emmett John / My thoughts

It’s so import to connect with your kids

I spent the early part of the morning working on some writing gigs. The second and most fun part of the morning was spent playing Connect Four with my tiniest little minion Emmett. We must have played twenty games. Some were won and many others lost because Emmett is freakishly good with anything related to patterns. He's legitimately hard to beat when it comes to anything like this. Win or lose, we had so much fun playing together. It's really important to me that I go out of my way to connect with my kids. Sometimes it's harder to connect with kids on the Autism Spectrum and that's one of the reasons it's so important to meet them wherever they are. For me today, that meant playing endless games of…

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January 3, 2018

Link / My thoughts / Sponsored Post

Seven Infant Care Challenges You Are Probably Not Prepared For

This is a collaborative post When you are expecting a baby, you try to be prepared for everything. There's more to worry about than just picking out a good infant car seat. You need to stock up on baby lotion, powder, and get all the accessories, including the bath, baby mobile, crib, and of course, purchase a car seat. However, there are some common skin conditions, allergies, and health issues your baby is likely to suffer from in the first few weeks that you need to be prepared for if you would like your little one and family members to get a good night’s sleep. Find out more about the most common conditions and parenting challenges below. 1. Chronic Colic If your baby feels bloated and cannot digest milk or…

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January 3, 2018

Cleveland Clinic / Gallery / Gavin / My thoughts / The Cole Eye Institute / Vision Problems

This is what we learned at The Cole Eye Institute today

It's been an exhausting day full of walking, waiting and driving. Gavin's final appointment of the day was at The Cole Eye Institute this afternoon. The appointment went well but it took forever. I honestly felt like we had been forgotten. The good news is that Gavin's eye checked out and they are basically perfect. The bad news is that we still don't know for sure why he's having visual blackouts. The current theory is that these blackouts are caused by migraines. Everything else has been looked at and aside from the pending EEG results, we've eliminated every other possibility. Until we find anything else, we're going with migraines for now. Appointments like these are maddening because all we want are answers and all we end up getting are more…

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January 3, 2018

Adult Epilepsy Center / Cleveland Clinic / Epilepsy / Gallery / Gavin / My thoughts

His EEG is done and Gavin is in good spirits

Gavin's appointment with the Adult Epilepsy Central at the Cleveland Clinic went as well as could be expected. His EEG went fine physically but we won't have any results back until later this week. They did seem to take note of abnormalities but there was nothing I could pick up on for sure. If this has been an EKG, I'd be all over it but I can't read EEG's. Gavin was really cooperative and made lots of awkward attempts to engage the techs in conversation. 😁 I think they really enjoyed working with him because Gavin was so polite and courteous the entire time. EEG's are not comfortable, especially for someone on the Autism Spectrum, dealing with several Sensory Processing Disorder. I was told to call back if I haven't…

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January 2, 2018

Adult Epilepsy Center / Cleveland Clinic / My thoughts

We made it to the Adult #Epilepsy Center at the @ClevelandClinic

We finally made it to the Adult Epilepsy Center at the Cleveland Clinic. Traffic sucked and the weather got worse the farther north we went. Gavin didn't have any problems on the way up, he just chilled in the back seat listening to music the whole way up. Not only did we make it but we made it a few minutes early. ☺ Gavin's feeling okay and that will make today that much easier. We have a lot of walking to do and if he wasn't doing well, the walk would be too much for him. We are currently waiting to go back for his EEG. Praying everything goes smoothly.

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January 2, 2018

Gavin / My thoughts

He’s the bravest kid I’ve ever met

It's super cold this morning and that adds some extra suckage to our early start to the day. On the plus side, I slept pretty well and feel perfectly capable of battling traffic on our way to Cleveland. ☺ At the moment, I'm sitting in the parking lot waiting for Gavin to emerge from having his blood drawn. This poor kid is going to feel like a guinea pig today because of all the testing he having done today. The blood work this morning should be the only needles he has to experience today and there's comfort in that. I can't explain how much admiration I have for Gavin. He never, ever complains about having to go through any of these things. He's easily the bravest kid I've ever met.

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January 2, 2018

Cleveland Clinic / Gavin / My thoughts / Optometry / Pediatric Neurology

Is Gavin losing his vision or is something else wrong?

We have a super long day ahead of us. It begins with early morning bloodwork and getting the kids ready to spend the day at my parents house. While the boys are at my parents house, the rest of us will spending the day at the Cleveland Clinic. Gavin has a long day of testing at the afore mentioned Cleveland Clinic. The purpose of this testing is to rule out and or discover the cause of Gavin's vision problems. For awhile now, Gavin's been experiencing periods of time where his vision goes completely black, like someone turned out the lights. We have been unable to determine the cause of these episodes and our goal for today is to at least rule a few things out. There are two areas of…

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January 2, 2018