April McGowan

Tuesday Afternoon

April — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:35:06 +0000

Last night my son came in the living room and said, “I love Tuesdays because we get to watch something fun and we always have popcorn.” He looked so happy. And that really struck me, because up until about five months ago, Tuesdays were not fun. Tuesdays are the day I do my infusion treatment [...]

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Say It Isn’t So (Sew)

April — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:31:16 +0000

Do you ever find it’s hard to live up to someone else’s expectations? Although you may be embarrassed to admit it, you just can’t quite measure up? My daughter has been in more than a couple events that required costumes. As the mom, the ‘stay-at-home homeschooling mom’ no less, it’s assumed as rolls are handed [...]

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Don’t Speak

April — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:05:21 +0000

Do you find it hard not to offer advice or try to fix things—not to speak when someone is in need? I have to admit, I’m a reformed fixer. And if you know me personally, you know I love to talk! In the past year, I’ve had the privilege to sit in silence next to [...]

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Wonderful Baby

April — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:34:11 +0000

I use song titles for my blog posts. I’m very connected to music when I write and it just takes a bar or two of something on the radio to transport me to another place. So, when I started to think about this post, I immediately remembered a song I loved when I was a [...]

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Maybe I’m Amazed

April — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:48:20 +0000

I haven’t blogged for several weeks now. We’ve been going through some insurance changes that put me off my medication schedule and I started to feel pretty lousy—I don’t know about you, but I have serious problems writing when I feel lousy! Thankfully, my supplies showed up two weeks ago. Even so, it put me [...]

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Let it Snow!

April — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:26:21 +0000

As I sit watching tiny flakes of snow drift to the ground outside my window, I find I’m in a contemplative mood. Today is the last day of 2012. And what a year it was. I find I remember many joys, all coming at the end of trials. There were difficult times dealing with fatigue [...]

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O Come, O Come Emmanuel

April — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:00:02 +0000

My heart is so saddened by the past few days. We’ve had shootings at our Clackamas mall, then our local pet store caught fire (nearly all the pets were lost), and now the shootings in Connecticut follow that up. I’m left feeling empty and sad. There are hundreds if not thousands in mourning this week—a [...]

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Hopelessly Devoted to You

April — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:33:52 +0000

The word dedicated sure has changed meaning for me in the past four years since we’ve been eating an allergy free diet. It all started with my son, but as we did testing on the rest of us, we found we suffered from similar reactions and sensitivities to gluten, egg and dairy. So for the [...]

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Count Your Blessings

April — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:05:32 +0000

Here in the US it’s Thanksgiving week. It’s a time when a lot of people sit down and consider their lives and give thanks for what they have. I’ve struggled with this a lot since the diagnosis of my illness. It’s hard for me to thank the Lord for things that other people don’t have. [...]

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You’ve Got a Friend In Me

April — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:05:13 +0000

The other day, sick again (seriously!) I was at the doctor’s office seeing a fill-in because I couldn’t get into see my regular physician. As often happens, she didn’t have a clue what CVID was—and she wasn’t really up on primary immunodeficiency. And when I said IgG replacement a tiny light went on—but still, not [...]

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