Posts Tagged ‘shriners’
That Overwhelming Feeling
You know the feeling… when you start to realize all the things you need to get done and all the things your kids need… and it starts piling up and all you want to do is crawl into bed and take a nap because that just seems much easier? I had one of those moments…
Read More +Advice I Should Share
In the last couple of years, I’ve talked to more and more parents about the process of getting a helper arm for his or her child. I realize I’ve blogged about why we use prosthetics before. But I haven’t given details about how we found our prosthetist. It was a trial and error process. First,…
Read More +Incredible bravery… And more
Jordan is brave. We’ve known that for a while… but HOLY COW did she prove it over the weekend. Her brother had a huge birthday party celebration at a local indoor playground. It’s a super large version of what my gym has… and the gym playground has clearly given her the bravery to do ANYTHING.…
Read More +Mission completed
We have returned from our Shriner’s appointment… And of course the experts there think Jordan’s amputation was caused by something different. It doesn’t really matter to me. But they think what caused it was syndactyly – where there was some kind of vascular incident that prevented the arm from growing around 4 to 6 weeks…
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