Tag: Tourette Syndrome
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Walking a Country Mile With One Another
Thank you all so much for your prayers and sweet words for William. He’s doing great! The pneumonia symptoms are gone and he’s had no asthma symptoms since late Sunday night. I’m so very thankful! He’s still dealing just a bit with side effects from the antibiotics, but those will pass with time. We’re […]
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Don’t Think About Monkeys
Don’t think about monkeys. Having someone tell you that is as powerful as saying, “You are now blinking manually.” The more you try to NOT think about it, the more your thoughts are filled, dare I say obsessed, with your own blinking. Now imagine, if you can, having that thought with you every single […]
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Will’s Story
In the spring of 1998, when I was 41 years old, the Lord surprised my husband and me by allowing us to conceive a child. To say we were thrilled and overjoyed would almost be an understatement. Corin, Dani and Aaron (our now thirteen year old) shared our excitement. My pregnancy was a tough one, […]
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Walking to the Beat of Their Own Drummer
This lovely poem was given to me by my wonderful neighbor, Kay. Kay is retiring, after more than twenty years, as a teacher’s aide in the Special Education classroom of our tiny, local public school. This poem was given to her by the first teacher she worked for, and she re-discovered it when she was cleaning our […]