To You: So here we are; Mother’s Day 2021. Your first Mother’s Day, as a mother. It’s a bit of an understatement to say today isn’t how you imagined it would be. Hard to have…
What I’ve Learned in the Last Two Months
We have achieved the 2-month threshold! Two months have passed in the blink of an eye, while also feeling like they’ve lasted two years. (Which to be fair is how the last year as a…
Digging Up Parallel Memories
It’s funny how random things can spur and light a dormant memory. It’s the first night back home from our latest trip to Greenville. This time HG is crankier than normal because of his procedure,…
Greene Does Greenville 3: Green on Greene
Well, surprise, surprise! Remember how I said last week we were still a few weeks away from the tenotomy procedure? Whelp, I was wrong! I mean, I wasn’t wrong wrong, I have the card that…
Strength in Siblings
When we found out that we were going to have HG, one of the first concerns that came to mind after all the excitement and happiness was when and how to tell the kids. There…
Greene Does Greenville 2: Electric Boogaloo
As exhausting as it is proving to be, two weeks in and our trips to Greenville, SC are already proving beyond any doubt that they’re worth it! Our second trip to Greenville Shriners proved to…
Dear Harrison Greene
Dear Harrison Greene, Well, son, you’re 1-month-old today. A month that has felt like a year while going by in the blink of an eye. Your Mom and I knew you’d keep us on our…
Greene Does Greenville
Greenville, SC. I can’t say I ever considered Greenville a place to visit, but now it feels like we were always destined to. Once we wrapped our heads around our new conditions and situation with…
The Constant That is BattleBots
Exactly 4 weeks ago, we were in the hospital room at UK Children’s Hospital, the weight of our new reality still sinking in, our son in the NICU, admittedly numb to the world, with BattleBots…
Welcome to Holland – A Parents Perspective
Navigating these unknown waters has been interesting. My wife came across this essay by longtime Sesame Street writer Emily Perl Kingsley, who has been an advocate for people with disabilities since her son Jason was…
Lexington Shriners Hospital – The Good, The Bad, The Infuriating
We made our second visit to Shriner’s Children’s Hospital in Lexington, for HG’s first cast change, along with his first set of splints on his hands/wrists. Not only that, we had our first official bath!…
Lets Talk About Serial Casting
Serial casting is a procedure that is geared to help improve a patient’s range of movement in a joint that can’t be flexed or extended, potentially caused because the muscle connected to a joint is…