Let’s face it. Most of us don’t know jack shit about pregnancy until we get pregnant. While there are books dedicated to the topic and lovely gems like “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” the only thing I really knew was what mass media and pop culture taught me (i.e. nothing). […]
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Online Dating & Other Firsts Following Major Medical Complications
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] When I first started telling people I was thinking of online dating, of course the first thing out of everyone’s mouth was their horror story experience from the daunting realm of the world wide web. If they hadn’t experienced the online disaster themselves, it was their […]
5 Reasons ADHD Isn’t All Crap
Many look at ADHD as a bad thing, finding faults in a child diagnosed.Well, I’m here to shed some light on ADHD and say it does have its positives. My son has ADHD, and it’s a learning process for sure. No two ideas work the same for him and his […]
How Losing My Stomach Made Me Hungry for Life
My name is Amy Oestreicher, and according to doctors, I am a “surgical disaster.” However, at 26, I feel truly blessed. I may not have a stomach, but I sure am hungry for life. It started in 2005 – a week before my senior prom. It was our second night of […]
There’s Murder in My Uterus. Wait, No, Just My Period After a Tubal
When I was pregnant last, I absolutely, positively, 100 percent guaranteed I would never be doing that shit again. Ever. Coming in at my third pregnancy, and an unexpected one at that, it was by far the worst when it came to morning sickness. On no fewer than eleventy million […]
11 Thoughts While Having a Transvaginal Ultrasound
By Liv of Live by Surprise As a woman of a certain age, I’ve had enough doctors, nurses, technicians, interns, and members of the general public up in my hooha that if I lined them all up, we could fill out a parade. With two miscarriages, three children and a […]
Autism: Lost in a Lingo-Laden Land
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] Seventy-four. The number of new terms I’ve come across since the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder was placed on my child. And the list keeps growing. Just days before I received my three year-old son’s diagnosis of ASD, I’ll never forget what I said to a […]
What She Did When I Told My Mother She Ruined Me
By Joe Medler of Developing Dad The most transformative moment of therapy for me didn’t happen in a therapist’s office, or even in therapy. It happened in a walk-in closet that I’d made my writing room in the third floor walk-up in Astoria, where I lived. Truth is, I was […]