DORI Comments: Hi – hope to post soon – we’re fine. Busy as always! Survived working all weekend last weekend transcribing. Getting my hearing aide eval next week. Hope to read and post SUNDAY. Tried to post in the diet board but it wouldn’t let me ;P so —- I’ve been been on board since [...]
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Deal that Meal…. Leave a comment
my hearing test! Leave a comment
First I worked end of last week and all weekend, first transcription assignment I’ve accepted in almost a month. Then I had appointments all week solidly! We are trying to use our insurance while we have it as well as getting all the kids school stuff done for the year. Monday I went to my [...]
finding vibes, please! Leave a comment
I LOST RYAN’S HEARING AIDS. I can’t find them anywhere. I know I brought them in the house; I remember taking them off of him (he has a clip) and I always put them in this one drawer, and they’re not there! I just looked through the whole house twice and am so aggravated. I [...]
found them! 1 comment
someone must have sent up an instant prayer for me as I FOUND THE HEARING AIDES! Ryan had them apparently as they were stuffed down in the couch. Little stinker….[ad#checks]
lazy copying of an email…. 1 comment
I write my good friend EVERY DAY so here’s the update I gave her. I STILL haven’t packed my linen closet….
A poem — 4 comments
Wow, I just found this poem as I was packing and sorting notebooks in my laundry room. I wrote this 8/26/90, just 3 months before Chris was born. curled up tight in a cocoon hug the branch call it home afraid to fall out of the shell to unknown dangers can the cocoon stay home [...]
interests survey Leave a comment
LJ Interests meme results attention deficit:I believe my whole family suffers from this. Apparently I have it, but it didn’t affect my school work – I was kind of a brain ha ha! But my housework abilities suffer. back to school:I still want to go back to college, but this, again, is on hold. I [...]
Thanks for prayers – 6 comments
Chris went through the test fine. I’m so relieved about that. About the results — he is severely and/or profoundly deaf – 80-120 dcb. Apparently this is almost totally deaf. He may be helped by cochlear implants. So obviously something genetic here. Both boys are getting blood tests to check on genetic causes, and my [...]
Behind as usual! Leave a comment
Got to have a horrible case of swimmer’s ear for Colleen. She was supposed to have her party (friends’ birthday party, which we try and have in the summer as her birthday is end of May) this Saturday but it’s postponed until next Saturday. I keep telling her, cheer up, she’s having the bad luck [...]
Ryan autism? 3 comments
On Ryan he has what’s called “a flat moderate sensorineural hearing loss bilaterally.” I got his report today and shared with some of the professionals that need it. I need to fax to more people tomorrow. In addition to following upon the hearing loss the final instruction was “continue with psychological/neurologic workup and monitoring for [...]



