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Greene Does Greenville

Greene Does Greenville – The Rainbow Connection

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Awareness & Advocacy

Reflecting on AMC Awareness (Month and Day) 2025

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Milestones & Reflections

Just Harrison: Preschool, Year ’24-’25

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Mehta Casting: Epologue

on March 22, 2023 July 22, 2025

Thus the final Mehta cast is off!! We started this chapter nearly 250 days ago. Unknowing at the time if we’d be going through 6 weeks of casting, six months of casting, or more. All…

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Harrison Turns 2!

on March 5, 2023 July 22, 2025

Just like last year, I’ve tried writing a birthday post for Harrison all day. Between work and the stress of making a duck cake (IYKYK), I’ve not really had the time to think, or maybe…

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Greene Does Greenville – The Last Mehta

on February 25, 2023 July 22, 2025

The sixth Mehta cast looks to be our last. Dr. Pete has tried hard, but due to the location of the curve in Harrison’s spine, we have reached a point where we are no longer…

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Custom Bluey-style cartoon character named Greeney wearing AFOs, with text reading ‘Birthday Party’ on a blue gradient background.

Why I Gave a Cartoon AFOs — And What It Says About Inclusion

on February 14, 2023 July 25, 2025

Note: This post was originally drafted for Fatherhood Reloaded, but it quickly became clear that it belonged here Meet Greeney Before Harrison’s birthday this year, I opened up Affinity Designer to create something fun —…

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Muddy Shoes

on February 6, 2023 July 22, 2025

You never know what’s going to tug on the ole emotional strings. The latest random tear starter: muddy shoes. This could be my overthinking brain, but there seems to be a fine line between sharing…

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Greene Does Greenville – Mehta No. 5

on January 19, 2023 July 22, 2025

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mehta Number Five. The latest Mehta cast for Harrison, his 5th, is also his 12th overall cast. He’ll be in lucky #13 when he turns two in March. Remember last…

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Therapy Thankfulness From the Father’s Perspective

on December 24, 2022 July 22, 2025

As parents, we always want the best for our children and their well-being is of the utmost importance to us. For the past year and a half, my exposure to Harrison’s therapies, outside of witnessing…

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Greene Does Greenville – 10 Degrees of HG

on December 6, 2022 July 22, 2025

This is actually the first Greenville post I haven’t at least started writing during the weekend once we’re back home. Considering we received good news (more on that in a bit) and, it’s kinda crazy…

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Greene Does Greenville – It’s Mehta #3!!

on October 8, 2022 July 22, 2025

Another visit to Shriners Children’s Greenville, another cast. We’ve hit Mehta cast number 3. Unclear as to how many more are in our future, but we do our best not to look forward too far…

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Greene Does Greenville – Dino-mite!

on August 30, 2022 July 22, 2025

We made our latest trek to Greeneville last week for our second round of Mehta casting and our latest set of AFOs. The more trips we take, the longer it’s taking me to recover from…

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Greene Does Greenville – It’s Mehta Time!

on July 17, 2022 July 22, 2025

It has nearly been 3 months, yet again, since our last visit to Shriners Children’s in Greenville, SC. As always, the number of things that can change in that amount of time can be mind-boggling….

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Chasing Waterfalls at Wildcat Branch

on July 16, 2022 July 22, 2025

No multiple-day trip to Greenville is complete without a bit of adventuring and sneaking in a sight or two. The last time we had a multiple-day visit to Greenville was last November before HG’s hip…

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