Jun 17 2021
It’s been a crazy morning but we all survived. Emmett went to bed complaining about pain behind his ear. He had a really hard time sleeping and kept me up for most of the night. When we woke up this morning, he was in tears because it hurt so bad. I could barely keep my …
May 30 2021
COVID had taken its toll on pretty much everyone and my family is no exception. One of the things that I want to do is spend the summer, helping my kids to get back to some semblance of normalcy. COVID was very challenging partly due to the isolation, but also because of the frustration, anxiety, …
May 29 2021
It’s been a couple of days since I’ve written. Life has been a roller-coaster ride for the last couple of weeks but we seem to have established an equilibrium as of late and I’m thrilled by that. I had to make some rather dramatic changes in their lives but the boys are definitely doing better …
May 26 2021
It’s totally been one of those days here in The Autism Dad househhold. We’re knee-deep into the last week of school and it’s a little more chaotic than I had anticipated, but we’re good. I dropped Emmett off at school and within an hour, I received a string of text messages from him asking me …
May 21 2021
One of the decisions I had to make recently was whether or not to get Elliott and Emmett vaccinated for COVID. That took about 3 seconds to figure out what the right thing to do was. Of course, the boys will get vaccinated ASAP. Do I have questions about the vaccines in regards to my …
May 19 2021
It’s been an incredibly emotional evening, especially for the kids. I had to make a difficult decision tonight, but it was the right one. I’m completely physically, and emotionally exhausted now. The kids are very upset but I’m working to help them remain open to positive change, and embrace it, even after they’ve been hurt. …
Apr 30 2021
This is going to be super quick folks. I’ve been in pretty rough shape for the last 48 hours or so. It got so bad today that I went and got tested for COVID, just to be sure. It’s been exactly 3 weeks since I had my second dose of the Moderna vaccine. The second …
Apr 28 2021
This is one of those posts that took a shameful amount of time to finish. Better late than never but this was supposed go out Monday night and it’s currently Wednesday morning. I had to take Emmett to urgent care this morning because his foot was still in a lot of pain. I don’t have …
