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My Lawyer's Worst Client

By now, most of you will know that I was in a terrible car accident a little over four years ago.  I spent five hours in surgery three days after the accident to fix my leg.  There is a big metal rod in my femur now.  They used metal wire to stitch my knee back together.  There was a fracture in my ankle.  And (although they didn't see it at the time), I also had a talar process fracture (a bone in my foot cracked off and lodged in the muscle).  I had two further surgeries after the accident - one to remove the wire from my knee, and the other (finally) to remove that piece of bone.

My lawyer, a very successful accident attorney, has seen the gamut of clients in his office.  Although he specializes in car accidents, he also has slips and falls and other insurance claims.  He's seen people who've turned their ankle in the bank parking lot and never been able to work again.  Others who have been hit from behind and had whiplash and PTSD so bad they can no longer leave the house.

And then he had me.

Why I Should Never Have Had Children

OK...so my title is a bit of a misnomer.  I have three beautiful children.  I deal with headaches from the father of two of them regularly.  But I would NEVER, EVER wish them away because I don't want to deal with them.  All three of them are a spectacular gift.  Two of them from a man who has so many issues with "giving" that I should be thankful to have them.

How Do You Make Report Card Day Positive for a Child with Learning Disabilities?

Living with a learning disability means that report card day has been very difficult in the past.  I think my son dreaded the report card almost as much as I did.  Because the school insists that you go over the report card with your child.  Which I totally understand.  But when most of the feedback can be seen as negative (and his teacher last year was pretty negative), it's really hard to keep positive and learn from it.

My son, despite his learning problems, is a perfectionist.  He has a lot of difficulty accepting the fact that he's not perfect.  And even more difficulty accepting that because of his learning disability, he may never be able to achieve the "perfection" he's striving for.