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The Blood Test
For over a year now, my son has needed blood work done in order to start immunotherapy, a year-long process that could help with his pet allergy so that we can replace the beloved cat who died last year. I have not been enthusiastic. His fear of needles is legendary, and until recently his vaccines (…) MORE »
Trespassing in the Realm of Boyhood
While watching our sons elbow each other in the face in a form of farewell known only to prepubescent males, another mom posed an interesting question recently: What if moms behaved like ten-year-old boys? We eyed our shrieking children and considered the ramifications. We could pick our noses at the dinner table in a nice (…) MORE »
Little Deaths
One night in mid January, I heard muffled sobs coming from my son’s room. I looked at my husband. He looked at me. Baffled, we made our way down the hall to find our son with the bed sheets pulled up over his head. “I miss Sammy!” he wailed, inconsolably. I crawled into his bed (…) MORE »
My Shadow
My Shadow My last blog post about my son’s medical issues was depressing, even to me, and so in early December I resolved that this month I’d write about the more humorous side of our lives. It was the holidays, after all. I was bound to get good material. Then in mid-December my beloved cat (…) MORE »
Vigilance
Recently, my son had a friend over to play. The mom and I stood at the front door chatting and after a few minutes, the news emerged that the child’s brother had come down with the chicken pox. I was stunned. Neither my child nor my husband has been exposed or vaccinated. In my son’s (…) MORE »
Lost in Paris
Recently, I left my son alone on a subway platform in Paris. An unfamiliar second child, a little towheaded boy who clutched at my hand, had managed to board the train with me. My real child, my only child, had not. The doors to the train closed, and I shouted back to my son, “I’ll (…) MORE »
