Parenting stress is unlike other stress. Somehow, I manage to think more clearly — or not think — and get things done. I still need my wife to help sometimes, but I manage the basics when our children are involved. Earlier in the trip, I imagined the most panic I’d…
Tag: medical emergencies
Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Monterey, Morro Bay, the Central Valley, and a fly over the Golden Gate Bridge at night. That was our ten-day (or eleven-day) vacation trip to California for the summer of 2018. Daddy and two excited little girls met up with friends and family for much of…
I realize my blogs (not only The Autistic Me) have been slow throughout 2016. Life has a way of consuming more hours than exist in the day. My to-do list exceeds any realistic amount of time I might have each day, week, or month. If all goes well, in December…
It is again that season, the time of year many of us will always consider the “new year” instead of some date in Winter. Yes, back-to-school. For me, this is the end of a busy five-class summer as an MFA student in Film and Digital Technology. I promise (sort of)…
This week there is a major national conference on campus, sponsored by the academic department in which I reside (in theory). However, either I missed the announcements or didn’t understand them earlier this academic year. So, while other graduate students and instructors are meeting administrators from across the nation, I…
Monday I have yet another (not so exciting) medical procedure. Yet, it isn’t the medical procedure I am about to have that annoys me. No, what is annoying me are my eyes. While I’m about to have some internal issues checked and verified, it is the pain of my eyes…
It’s not easy to have surgery after surgery, medical adventure after medical adventure, while trying to complete my doctorate and move forward with life. Written Exams… Testing Sanity I spent the entire week taking my written exams, receiving questions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. With 24 hours to respond to…
For the last two weeks, plus or minus a few days, I have been coughing. This followed a horrible cold — the second rough cold of this season. In winter, more of us are in close proximity, leading to more infections. Unfortunately, I teach and that means I am in…