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A great start to the 2011 blogging year…..

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The Lost and Tired blog has seen over 15,000 hits so far this year. That’s right 15,000 hits in the past 24 days..

Thank you for reading our story and traveling with us on our journey.  Thank you for helping spread Autism Awareness.

Tomorrow is the BIG day…..

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At 4:15pm tomorrow afternoon we will find out the results of Emmett’s ADOS testing. I have come to grips with Autism being the most likely diagnosis. Despite coming to “grips” with it I don’t know how I will react. Actually that’s not true, I do know how I will react. I will break down right there. I’ll fight it for as long as I can so Emmett doesn’t get stressed out but I will lose the fight and More >

Progress on the surgery front…maybe

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I spoke with our Aultman hospital about what was going on and asked if they would be willing to work with me on payments. I explained what Mercy had quoted about $12,000 for the surgery and about $700/month

in payments if we self pay. The patient account rep I spoke with said that a bill that size would about $100/month as far as payments are concerned. So now I have Dr. D’s office calling to More >

 

Daily Mommy Survival (Returns)

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My wife started blogging again. She shares our story from her perspective. She is a VERY talented writer.  Please stop by and show her some love….just click on the banner below……

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Lost and Tired family update

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It’s been a few days since I really updated anything. So here it goes. Gavin is recovered from his spinal tap. No problems as of today. They can happen at any point within the first 5-7 days we were told by the doctor. That said, Gavin is basically completely psychotic. He has lost touch with reality and movements have also gotten worse. Behaviorally he is doing ok. He is hurting himself and More >

30 secs in my world……

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Here is what many families with Autistic children hear very often. In my case, this is what wakes me up at 5am every morning. I can only guess at what causes this but it goes on for an hour or more sometimes. When he is like this he is inconsolable. I have no idea how to help him when he is like this. He typically will not tolerate being touched at this point. I would think this is a result of More >

I’m soooooo tired…..

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So I got up this morning at 5am to a screaming Emmett. I got him back to sleep for about 10 minutes till I got sick (stress), Then I cried for a bit cause I missed my wife and I was completely overwhelmed. I took the kids over to my parents house and did some running around. I had to go to Sprint (more on that later) and Best Buy. Then to the post office and then to fill the 5 gallon water jugs. More >

Emmett got into speech…..

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Emmett finally starts speech therapy next week. This is long overdue and desperately needed…

Oh, I forgot. Emmett’s genetic results..

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Emmett”s genetic work up came back Monday. I forgot with everything else going on. But everything came back good. Even the Fragile X. So that”s is something to be thankful for.

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