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Off on vacation!
Posted Jul 17, 2007
Me and my husband are leaving for vacation tomorrow. The idea is to drive through Poland with Krakow as our main goal. The plan is to stay at camping sites as much as the weather allows. I have a passion for tents and sleepingbags!
It is going to be great to get away for a couple of weeks, to see and experience a country and a culture all new to us.
May the sun shine on all of you
Izzybelle
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Latest reply: Jul 17, 2007
My Dad and my Son
Posted Jul 14, 2007
My dad, my big hero then and now, had a heart-attack ten days ago.
One of older sisters called me. He was in hospital, nobody really knew at the time how he was doing, or how serious it was. She lives half an hour away from mum and dad, and live nearly 600 kilometers away... I continued the phone-chain and got to my son. The first thing he says when he has heard the news was; "Mum do you want me to go now, right away?"
My son lives in Stockholm which is a lot closer to where my parents live, and he is the same one I have been so worried about with his Asperger handicap. And he loves his granddad.
In the middle of all the worry about dad, and how mum was keeping up and how quickly I could get there myself, this offer from my son was like a marvellous gift given to me. It may sound like a competely normal thing to most of you that a 20-year old young man should do in a situation like that... but those of you who had had any experience with kids with somesort of neurological handicap will probably understand what a fantastic thing this was for me.
And he did it! He took the train to his grandparents made his grand-dad really happy, kept his nan company for a couple of days until I could get there. I am so happy, it is a proof for me that he has grown quite a lot, and that I did one or two things right being a mother...
Dad is back from hospital, 82 years old and this was his first time in hospital -ever. He is tired but in good spirits.
To make a connection to one of Tartaronnes threads about tax financed healthcare, the cost for Intensive Care for four days was approx. 32 euros
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Latest reply: Jul 14, 2007
Living on standby
Posted Oct 1, 2006
As I wrote in Hatis thread about “Teenagers”
I am in a crazy spin with my son atm. He is 20 in a couple of weeks. The huge problem is that he has neurobiological handicap, he has Aspergers Syndrome http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html though he has "Asperger Light" it still causes a lot of difficulties for him. Especially difficult is the fact that my darling son cannot acknowledge that he has Asperger, there are a lot of help available if he asks for it -but since he can’t see that he needs assistance with a number of things he keep "crashing" time and time again... And since he has turned 18 he is now of age, a grown up person -so it is strictly very hard for me and my husband to actually make sure everything works for him as it should, to contact authorities without his consent etc.
He moved to Stockholm a couple of weeks ago to study, entitled to specific subsidy because of handicap. The thing is "executive functions" (for example filling in forms for said subsidy) is one of the abilities that fails him. So now there is no money coming because the form was filled in the wrong way, he NOT stated his handicap; he had NOT included a statement from his doctor etc, etc...
And who has to be there to sweep up the pieces and try to mend everything again. He has crashed once again and does not really know how to get things right. And there is a lot of frustration involved having to come to mum and dad for help. Which is really difficult for us to give since he is of age, and cannot see that things that goes wrong has an explanation in his handicap -because he doesn’t think he has Aspergers Syndrome. Catch 22.
I am really really fed up with the situation. I love my son. But I don’t know how we can keep on living on "emergency call" for ever...
A very tired
Izzybelle
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Latest reply: Oct 1, 2006
I am back
Posted May 19, 2006
I haven´t been very active here for a long long time, it has it´s reasons. Life has been so full of so many other things. Life, children and relations in general has consumed my time and strength. Life has been hard and unfair... (in other words perfectly normal then! -I can hear Hati shout from across the Baltic...she´s already told me
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But now I think I am on way back up to the surface. I need to get in touch with old and new friends, to feel alive.
Together you are less lonely
Talk to me
Izzybelle
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Latest reply: May 19, 2006
Summer Heat
Posted Aug 10, 2004
For about a week we´ve had extremely hot weather. Around 30 centigrades in the shade, and for somebody like me who starts to feel wobbly at 25 in the shade, it is not easy. Most Scandinavians love this kind of weather, probably because we are having long, dark cold winters. I wish I could share their complete happiness this past week. But I really can´t. I find the warm weather very hard to cope with. It is like my whole system has shut down...
Thanks God autumn isn´t far away
Are you happy in the heat?
Or are you more like me, looking for shade?
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Latest reply: Aug 10, 2004
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