There are times when others can capture another’s feelings, beliefs, and even thoughts better than they can. It happens with me sometimes, although I generally feel I do a knock-out job of communicating my opinions. Still, I came across an online article a few months ago that expressed a belief of mine better than I […]
Archives for June 2012
Therapy Gains: It’s Impressive
Beginning just before the first of April, Ryan began a new therapy that actually makes his muscles perform work against resistance. Being two months into it, I thought this might be a great time to fill you in on his progress. I even created and provided a graph (below) to visually represent his performance and […]
People Might Think it’s Silly, but Not to Me.
Some time back, I’m thinking about eight months ago, I quietly added a way for people to subscribe to monthly donations to Ryan’s Special Needs Trust Fund. You can see it in the sidebar (to the right of this post) or on the home page of the website. I was hopeful that many would notice […]
Urine Culture Results
Yesterday we found out the results of a urine culture. It was taken to see if the highly-resistant urinary tract infection (UTI) that Ryan battled since April was eradicated. The culture didn’t grow anything out! This is huge. If the bacteria was still present it would not be good. No, not at all. It’s one […]
A Perfect Day to Fish
As a teenager growing up in the mountains of central Pennsylvania I spent many summer Saturdays fishing. My equipment was always ready and I jumped at every chance to be on the streams fishing for trout. I was so efficient it was just a matter of slipping on my hip boots, fishing vest (with all […]