Life in Holland: Carly's Big Week

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Carly's Big Week

She graduated from kindergarten on Thursday night. She is officially off for the summer. The program was adorable. It was a jungle/safari theme and the kids did a wonderful job.

The soccer season is officially over as well. Her team had a swimming and pizza party. She is so proud of her trophy!

The "Blue Angels" Makenzie, Olivia, Carly, Kaitlyn, Payton, Leana, and Sway

Dress rehearsal for next weekend's ballet/tap recital

Yay, we are almost done!!

I really enjoy my kids being in activities but I look forward to the break in the summer. Iam so glad we are almost there! The kids are at Kenneth's mom's for the night and he and I are going out on a date. The times we get to do this are very few and far between. I am sooooo looking forward to a night out with adults! Off to the shower I go...

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KristineMay 17, 2010 at 7:48 PM
I was completely horrified at your post today. I notice that you took it down.

I would immediately go to the hospital's administration and tell them that if they did not disclose the information to the patients family I would go to the press. I would be careful posting that type of information as I'm pretty sure you could get into serious trouble for not telling the authorities. I'm sorry you had to be a part of that...the hospital's ethics committee should deal with this now. How horrifying...can you imagine if it were one of our children.
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JamieMay 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Kristine.
I had to revise it due to the sensitivity of the information. The situation is in the hands of the hospital's risk management team. I am sure they will do all kinds of root cause analysis and blah, blah, blah. We will have all kinds of changes to hospital policies and the guy's death will not be in vain and that is great and all but guess what, the family still will not know the truth and that makes me sick!
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this....When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.