Posted on Monday, 28th March 2011 by chrisjones
We’re about one week out from the big day: April 4 Gabriel gets his cast off. We cannot wait. It’s like looking forward to Christmas. It’s such a big deal that the four-year-old can tell you how many days are left, counting them himself. Gabriel has lost a lot of weight. The original rash that [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd March 2011 by chrisjones
Most of you know I teach a class every week on Scholarship and Leadership to a group of 13-17-year-olds. The class ranges all over; we study George Washington, Gandhi, Lincoln, and ourselves. There’s a lot of writing and thinking about how to be whatever it is we want to be. Today I got a question [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th March 2011 by chrisjones
Yesterday marked the T-minus 3 week mark. Gabriel dumps the permanent fiberglass pants on April 4. We’ve gotten into a basic holding pattern now. The rash is under control but not eliminated. It doesn’t appear to hurt him. I’ll have Jeanette do a guest post on her experiences with various diaper-rash creams, but whatever she’s [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 9th March 2011 by chrisjones
We knew that this injury was going to change all sorts of things in our lives, but no matter what we thought, we weren’t prepared for the reality. Maybe, I’m working on this idea, you are NEVER prepared for the reality. I wasn’t prepared for children, I can tell you, and we had 9 months [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011 by chrisjones
The medical system is a disaster, especially from the financial side, as I detail here and here. But there is one part of the system I have no complaints about, and that’s the people. With only two exceptions, and those are colored by the “necessity” of uncovering abuse where it doesn’t exist, every single person [...]
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