Happy Thanksgiving to the readers of this blog who celebrate it. We aren’t really celebrating this year. It just feels weird to be away from Michigan on this day. Truth be told, Thanksgiving has never ranked among my favorite holidays. Growing up, I remember Mom in a constant frenzy (and riding us like a prizewinning […]
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Chicago, awaiting our flight out to Madrid (& then on to Sevilla) tomorrow afternoon. Since I don’t fancy myself sending out any posts from 30,000 feet, here’s a special holiday treat to tide you over. I wrote this essay on our Christmas trip from two years ago. It […]
First off, apologies to those who tried to access the site today and couldn’t. We were experiencing technical difficulties. Actually, I had been attempting to upgrade the blog software to its latest version, and things got a little out of hand. I finally gave up and restored everything back to its original version. There weren’t […]
A few weeks ago, I decided to divulge the nature of Rubén’s condition to my grandmother, being as descriptive as I possibly could. I didn’t get far before the inevitable question came up, a question that I’m asked often and one that never fails to leave me stammering, even though I had prepared a careful […]
Well, we finally got our report back from our neurologist in Spain, complete with the results of all the brain scans and other tests Rubén had to endure at the start of this journey. Thankfully, they were all negative.
It was the finding of this doctor that our son has a moderate speech delay. We should […]
I saw a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America this morning about a couple who had three sons (one older child, and then a set of twins), all of whom had been diagnosed with autism.
I tuned in because, in the promo, they spoke of the “controversial new treatment” the couple sought in trying to heal […]
Does Rubén = young Daniel?
Theories abound as to what causes ASD in small children. The more common ones include mercury poisoning, vaccines (especially the MMR), and the consumption of certain medications during pregnancy. Of course, a large role is played by genetics.
This got me to thinking about how all too familiar Rubén’s characteristics are to […]