Are you a parent who’s been feeling unusually overwhelmed, super emotional, easily irritated, extremely exhausted, and detached not only from others (your children and family), but from yourself as well? Has parenting become more of a chore than normal?...
My story begins December 31, 2006. I was 27 and had just gotten engaged ten days earlier to the man of my dreams. I had a job I loved teaching sixth grade. Life was good! I was in the...
Let me start by saying it. Asthma stinks. Really, really stinks. I've had it all my life, and my sweet daughter now has it. I hate that she has to go through the same things that I've endured since...
Disclaimer :: This great insight into chronic pelvic pain is sponsored and written by Dr. Catherine Bevan, a local Tarrant County OB/GYN.
Dealing with chronic pelvic pain is an awful, frustrating experience. It is estimated that 15 percent of reproductive-aged women...
I have a wonderful life — full of joy and love and laughter. But it’s definitely not the life I had planned.
She'd lay old, white bed linens on the couch -- layers of them -- and lay down because she was bleeding so heavy no pad or tampon could contain it. The sheets and her clothes would be stained with blood when she got up. When that particular bleeding "episode" eased, she'd get up and put everything in the washing machine.
But I also found encouragement that -- with modern medicine, early intervention, support, and encouragement -- people with Down syndrome are achieving great things.