Potholes and Profanity After picking Ryan up from school today, I hit a pothole on the way home, because the City of Philadelphia’s roads < Dresden, 1945.
Archives for February 2018
This Was Fun Before You Got All Professional
Life is one test after another. Yesterday, I took Jack into the city for one of his early big ones, post-op: his gross-motor assessment by the intrepid pros at CHOP’s Cardiac Kids Developmental Follow-Up Program. Me, Jack, a pediatrician, a speech therapist, a physical therapist, an occupational therapist and Jack’s Vespa-sized car seat stroller crammed […]
Stay Away from the BABY!
One of the unique challenges of caring for a heart baby is keeping them at a prudent distance during cold and flu season from their infectious preschooler siblings. It’s no mystery why 3-5 year olds get sick all the time. Something something immature immune systems, according to the medical establishment. All right. I get that. […]
Sleep, Damn It
When Ryan was a baby I became known by the moms at the play center as “the sleep dad.” For months before Ryan was born, his mom and I had cringed at the wrenching saga of sleep trauma my sister-in-law and her husband (Uncle Will, as he’s also known) had endured with their oldest daughter. […]