I’m only going to say this once: I’m totally legal, I’m a citizen! No one’s getting deported. What we’re doing is getting DE-ported. This post is about Peyton. July 14, 2006 saw us here Peyton looking petrified and me trying my best not to. That was the bed that she laid in as they wheeled [...]
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Should I cut her ear off NOW?
THIS is the photo that was displayed at Peyton’s art class as the project of the day. THIS is the picture that Peyton painted. Do you hear that? That’s my heart overflowing with pride at her talent. Girl’s got some MAD skills!
Better living through chemicals
Dear Company-That-Manufactures-Robitussin-with-Codiene, I truly want to extend my deepest regards and heartfelt thanks for the unexpected joy you’ve brought into my life. I recently (last night) was on the road for over eight hours driving from Florida to Alabama. As my daughter has your product prescribed, I planned to give her a dose to knock [...]
Knowing what crazy looks like doesn’t make it any easier to avoid
A cough in the middle of the night. Followed by another. Then a soft moan of discomfort. That’s all it takes. I’m transported to a night over two years ago when I woke up to hear Peyton crying in her sleep. “I hurt, mommy.” Those three words foreshadowed pain and sickness and disease. I didn’t [...]
Swimming in the pink
This whole post was supposed to be about Peyton’s surgery. Her port was scheduled to come out and I had planned to spend an anxious night, dreading and worrying about all the possibilities. But the surgery was postponed because Peyton developed pink eye. Yeah. Pink eye. We can get through cancer and chemotherapy, radiation and [...]
