Have you ever looked at the floor of a public restroom? I mean really studied it? Even if they mop twice a day as they’re supposed to, it’s not pretty, you guys. Wet spots. Sticky spots. Bits of toilet paper and hair. Don’t think about it too hard or you’ll vomit. Last weekend, on …
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Though Cam and I recently set out into the world to become travel bloggers, it occurred to me yesterday that I haven’t written anything about our number one travel destination: Children’s Hospital Colorado Resort and Spa (I added the last part, but I think it’s catchy). In fact, since COVID has caused us to cancel …
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At four years old, with multiple disabilities and medical issues, Cam made his first international trip. For two weeks Cam and the rest of us saw and did everything we could in Edinburgh, the Scottish Highlands and London. It wasn’t easy, hauling this kid across the pond with his wheelchair (and sometimes carrier), but totally …
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I found this little gem going through some of my old vet school stuff. I wrote this for Vital Signs, our Onion-style vet school newspaper, back when Carson was a rowdy toddler. It’s bittersweet, knowing Cam missed this stage, but still pretty funny, if I do say so myself. Hope you like it! Animal Shelters …
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FIVE YEARS AGO… My perfectly healthy ten-month-old son had been absolutely not right for a week. His symptoms were nothing very specific — no vomiting, coughing or fever — nothing to make anyone think he was a ticking time bomb. He had been sleepy and grumpy and had a strange reluctance to use his right …
Happy 2021! We’re still here. And I guess, if you’re reading this, so are you! I don’t need to tell you how the last year has been, since you also live on this planet, but I do want to apologize for not posting at all. To the handful of people wondering what’s happening in the …
It may sound crazy, but sometimes I forget that my son Cameron has cancer. Sure, I remember that he uses a wheelchair, a gait trainer or scoots on his rear end to move around because he can’t stand or walk on his own. I remember he uses grunts, gestures, one-handed signs, the occasional intelligible word …
My son, Cameron, eighteen months old at the time, was halfway through his radiation treatments. He had a big swath of angry, hairless scalp from his left eyebrow to the middle of his head, above his left ear to the back of his neck. Gleaming red, his radiation burn stood in stark contrast to his …
Last week, for the first time in months, Cameron was admitted to the hospital. Oh, we’ve come close a few times recently, only to be sent home at the last minute, with instructions to return if he worsened. This time Cam got his ticket to the respiratory floor, identical to the surgery floor, except our …
I haven’t posted in over six months. Not because I haven’t been writing and working, but because life got in the way. Again. Sure we had some normal stuff happen, like moving to a new house in a different town and losing my grandfather, but the main reason is because Cameron’s dang body just …
