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so much sweetness by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health today i let the morning routine slide. (yes, i know, it's only day 3, but i think it was worth it. teehee) i got up a few minutes late, but i got dressed. came down ... Read on »

well, what do you know... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health yes, yes, it's been over 24 hours since we got home, and i still haven't posted. bad blogger mommy, bad bad blogger mommy. haha i don't remember mentioning this here, but ... Read on »

well, it was a day... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health so, asher was home from school yesterday, which meant that he and i were going to have a delightful day, just the two of us. oh, i had grand plans. he wanted sushi for lunch ... Read on »

quite an interesting day today... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health yup, quite an interesting day, indeed... i took asher to see our amazing dr b this afternoon. turns out, asher has lost all the extra fluid weight, and is back down to hi ... Read on »

surrendering is NOT the same as giving up. by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health oh, my sweet, sweet little asher... by now you probably know that, if he's not already failing, he's at least "flirting" with it. and as you can probably imagine, i ha ... Read on »

oops, my bad... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health i realized this morning that i forgot a couple details last night. first of all, asher's weight. last week, asher weighed 15.2 kg (approx 33 lbs). yesterday, he weighed i ... Read on »

nothing good comes from a 4 year old flirt by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health especially when that 4 year old flirt is asher. and he's not flirting with anything good. so, we saw paeds this afternoon. asher has been puffy and pale for the last f ... Read on »

sigh... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health a little bit about asher first, then moving on to bigger, more important things... asher's amazing paeds dr b talked to dr caldarone the other day. she asked him whether ... Read on »

my bad :S by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health i realized at church today that i had forgotten to update the blog here with some more recent developments. my bad. so here we go... the other night - thursday, i believe ... Read on »

well, one year later, here we are... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health that's right, folks, today is asher's first "fontanniversary." one year ago today, at exactly this time, asher was in the OR at SickKids, with dr c finishing off asher's new ... Read on »

asher prayed this week, "God, i want to be your personal penguin." by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

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um... ok...??? aka, why i'm really starting to believe in multiple universes. aka, blerg. :S by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health so, it was cardio yesterday. and i have to admit, it left me with more questions, confusion, a little bit of freaxia, and a touch of "WTF?!" (for lack of a better term). ... Read on »

technology is great... until there's a glitch. {wave of nausea} by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health and when the glitch could kill your child... {wave of nausea} asher's london cardio, dr w, has suspected for a few weeks now that asher's pacemaker isn't quite doing what ... Read on »

asher's new "best" song by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

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on chest infections and immunology... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health i just realized today that the last post here was about asher being sick, and i kind of left you hanging with that. my bad. so here's what you need to know. he's better n ... Read on »

and now for something completely different... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health no goofiness or reflections today, i'm afraid. sigh... for the last few days, asher's been coughing pretty badly. wet and crackly, and he's been pale, but it wasn't too s ... Read on »

NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a true story. by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health so i was getting asher into his jammies tonight, and he... {gulp} took his nose off. and then dropped it. well, i'm not too proud to admit that i. freaked. out. ... Read on »

an open letter to my sweet, sweet Asher. by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health sigh. oh, my sweet boy, i just love you so much. i love your smile and your belly laugh and the way your eyes twinkle. i love your crazy hair and your goofy sense of h ... Read on »

CHD. a most beautiful gift. by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health yes, you read that right. CHD is the most beautiful gift. now, don't get me wrong. i invented the word "freaxious" for a reason. it's how you feel when you agree to an ... Read on »

How CHD messes with your head... or maybe just how Asher does... hard to tell sometimes... by Heather Heywood Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Children's Health So, last night, asher was grey. And i remembered another time when he was grey in his sleep. Last spring. When his heart rate was in the 20s ... Read on »

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