Cindy's Blog
My home on the web since 1995
Category: Family and Friends
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Fresh on the heels of our 34th anniversary comes the twins’ 33rd birthday. I spent our first anniversary in the hospital on complete bed rest after my water broke at 23 weeks gestation with “Twin A.” Twin A was Eric, who has always kept us on our toes—and apparently, that started from the very beginning.…
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As of today, I’ve got 1.32 TB of photos in 8,256 folders and 268,565 files, including scanned photos going back to the 1920s. All organized by year, month, and event. Finding a Facebook TBT should be easy, but it’s often overwhelming. Sometimes I’ll think of some event or person and go looking for a particular…
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We call our son Anthony, our “ray of sunshine” because he is always happy. Anthony has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and a profound developmental disability. He is wheelchair dependent, does not speak, and is fed through a gastrostomy-jejunostomy (GJ) feeding tube. In spite of his significant disability, he is a happy, healthy kid who is…
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TBT – 1997, Boston Children’s Hospital. I’ve been going through my old journals and came across this email that I sent to friends and family back in June 1997, over 20 years ago. Aaron was in the hospital having a major surgery, laryngotracheoplasty (tracheal reconstructive surgery to remove his tracheostomy tube). This was sent out…
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Massachusetts Ballot Question One 2018 Not all Massachusetts nurses want a ‘yes’ vote on Question 1. The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) is promoting ballot Question 1, which would set limits on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time. First, this bill only pertains to hospitals and it’s important to note that…