tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post8754026409969214305..comments2024-03-24T09:23:09.202-07:00Comments on Outrageous Fortune: One year ends, another beginsShastahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01013565031179610593noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-62667039097709416942011-10-27T19:36:27.055-07:002011-10-27T19:36:27.055-07:00Hey there Anonymous,
Thanks for taking the time t...Hey there Anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time to do that. A treatable hormone condition sounds awesome, but Malachi did in fact have brain damage as documented by an ultrasound. Too bad. :(Shastahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01013565031179610593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-91727075313306116592011-10-27T16:40:12.764-07:002011-10-27T16:40:12.764-07:00Darn! I tried to copy the address of the news vid...Darn! I tried to copy the address of the news video I just saw today (10-27-11), so you'd pull it up if you haven't already seen it. Found it on msnbc.com about Twins Wrongly Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Turned out to be some kind of L-Dopa disorder instead, which is miraculously treatable with medicine. I know; I know... keep dreaming. But what a wonderful dream!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-87733928727457207982011-10-15T14:16:54.240-07:002011-10-15T14:16:54.240-07:00Hello Anonymous, I don't know who you are or h...Hello Anonymous, I don't know who you are or how to get in touch with you, but yes, donations are gladly accepted through the PayPal button. It sounds like you are having trouble with this though. See if you can find a "log out" button in case someone else has signed in? Otherwise, you can e-mail me directly and I can give you our mailing address. That way PayPal doesn't get a fraction of it anyway. Thank you, whoever you are!Shastahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01013565031179610593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-24805455842517723402011-10-15T13:55:42.446-07:002011-10-15T13:55:42.446-07:00Shasta, on a different blog, I found a donation bu...Shasta, on a different blog, I found a donation button and tried to donate. It kept insisting that "because I have a paypal account" I can't use a different credit card. I tried two different credit cards, but it kept saying the same thing. But I don't have a paypal account! I've never had one. So what is going on?! Clues? Have others had this problem? Has it been solved?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-33491231429707123202011-06-27T17:49:24.274-07:002011-06-27T17:49:24.274-07:00Stacie: Thank you, that's so beautiful.
Fisch...Stacie: Thank you, that's so beautiful.<br /><br />Fischer: Thanks! It's good to hear from someone who's walked this path.<br /><br />EarlyBirdies: Yes, I've often heard that how you act about it is how other people will react. If you act like it's normal, they will too. It's just so hard to not feel like everyone is staring at you.<br />And yes, it was enormously hard, especially with spending 10 weeks in fear and then finally relief that things were going to be OK. That first week we even had a neonatologist say that she fully expected us to be able to take home two healthy boys in a few weeks. I am still grateful to this day that she gave me a week without worry... the eye of the storm.Shastahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01013565031179610593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-41489979538314514162011-06-27T17:15:23.982-07:002011-06-27T17:15:23.982-07:00Yes, I know what you mean! It's a part of my d...Yes, I know what you mean! It's a part of my daily life now. I take the two of them out and people look really confused and then cautiously ask if they're twins, to which I respond with a "yes". And then it gets kind of awkward from there, although I've been trying out different tactics to prevent or diffuse the awkwardness. One of them, I've picked up from other blogs, is to just not look people in the eye, to stop looking around self consciously to see if someone is staring. To just go about my life as if nothing is wrong in the world--I picked this tip up from other blogs. I suspect by the time my twins are two, nobody will even ask whether they are twins anymore because their differences will be so amazingly vast (they already are). <br /><br />By the way, that's gotta be so hard to think that you made it two weeks past the danger zone to find out something had, indeed, gone dangerously wrong. I think it's similar to how my husband and I were so relieved when we realized that Andrew didn't have any brain bleeds or anything. His brain was premature but very nice for the first month of life, even! We thought that we were neurologically in the clear. And then, b'ah, infection hits and it all went down hill from there. <br /><br />Love your blog! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-81028530071567848922011-06-27T11:01:05.469-07:002011-06-27T11:01:05.469-07:00Happy Birthday! Oh, and you will get by without t...Happy Birthday! Oh, and you will get by without too many comments for another year or two - more likely they will think they're not twins, and I'm not sure which is worse. Hugs!ferfischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00184449747019920745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27546414.post-69201706897660200632011-06-27T08:00:15.910-07:002011-06-27T08:00:15.910-07:00When that day arrives... Malachi will know he is b...When that day arrives... Malachi will know he is blessed with a strong, loving mother. Only she could have written the beautiful story I read today. He is here to teach them... and he is not alone, nor are you.Staciehttp://rileys-smile.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com