The H1N1 Fairy has Visited the Mindless Mommy Household

October 13, 2009

With all her germy sparkliness, the H1N1 Fairy has visited the Mindless Mommy household – not once, but twice. While on a flight to Atlanta last weekend, I wrote about my daughter’s experience with H1N1, Asthma, and a Severe Case of Croup. Last week was relatively quiet in our house but Alexander ended [...]

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Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign

September 28, 2009

If you were only to look at the title of this post, Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign, then you’d likely think that this would be a positive post helping raise awareness about asthma. However, the new educational campaign – ASTHMyths, which is sponsored by the Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), [...]

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Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week 2009

September 21, 2009

I just saw a post on one of my “special needs parenting” message boards that this week, September 20-26, is Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week. She is the mother of a sweet little boy who has a mitochondrial disease. I remember her first posts two or so years ago when her boy was just [...]

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FDA Warns Against Use of Certain Asthma Medications Due to Tampering

September 18, 2009

On September 17, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers not to use certain respiratory medications purchased after Sept. 8, 2009 and manufactured by Dey L.P., a subsidiary of Mylan Inc., because the medications might have been part of a shipment being transported on a tractor-trailer stolen in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. [...]

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An Insurance Company Rant

September 8, 2009

Considering the focus on health care reform in Congress and from the Obama administration, I though that my insurance company rant is a perfect post for today. On August 12, my daughter went to see the neurologist. She’s been having headaches and so he ordered an MRI. I called the nurse on [...]

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Fun Fauna Night in the Desert

September 6, 2009

Last night at dusk, my dad drove my kids and I out into the desert to go looking for desert fauna (and to just have a nice drive). Shortly after dark, we noticed something in the road hopping straight at us – it was a big ole toad! My dad stopped and caught [...]

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Hallucinations and Simple Partial Seizures

September 2, 2009

Today was one of my scariest days as a mom.
At about 2:30 pm today, I received a call from the school nurse. The kids get out of school at 3:30 pm and so I was a bit surprised to be receiving a call. The nurse said that Alexander was in the [...]

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