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Late #AuldLangSpine review here: this is an incredible story of Harris' struggle to advocate for her son's medical health and educational rights due to a mysterious undiagnosable medical condition. Harris shares intriguing reflections on her experiences: how she responds given her own anxiety issues, why her son's condition also contributes to what makes him special, and other responses to maddening ambiguity. Emotional, yet sharply written.

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Thanks @ncsufoxes for your list this month: I finished three and am still working on This Boy We Made but enjoying it very much. I think I'm going to keep referring back to the list this year and pick up a couple more. Nice chatting with you as well!

@monalyisha thanks for organizing this event! I really like this method of getting recommendations. Looking forward to participating again in the future 😀

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#This Boy We Made by Taylor Harris

#I have subscribed to 2 different ones. I cannot remember the names of them. They were cool, but I started listening to audiobooks more.

#The Black Snowman is my favorite winter book.

One of the best memoirs I‘ve read. I can‘t imagine the strength the parents have who have children with health issues. Add to that educational delays. This is a powerful book about fighting for your child.

The little boy in this book has mysterious symptoms that doctors can not figure out. I spent about a year at Duke Children‘s doing my clinical hours for Child Life. So I spent a lot of time working with a lot of kids similar there & in early intervention. The mom highlighted the prevalence of racism & misdiagnosis of kids (which I‘ve seen lots of that, unfortunately). It was an interesting story about their experiences of dealing with a lot of

OMG yes, a million times over. I feel that with every IEP meeting. All I ever think when I hear about friends & their fights over IEPs, is didn‘t at one time the people doing this job go into it for a reason. Why do people feel the need to lessen what your child & family are going through? We have been fighting for 7 years to get an accurate school (& medical but that‘s another fight) for our son, he technically 10 years if you count being denied

Ugh, I totally get this. Sitting in an IEP meeting & listening to the results from your child‘s testing is so exhausting & it just hurts. It hurts because these numbers don‘t define your child but are necessary to access services. As an early intervention coordinator I sat with many families through the transition meeting for preschool (I had a lot of medically complex kids). It was hard then & it‘s hard now as a mom.

A mom with anxiety disorder writes about her young son, who awakes one day in distress. The dash to the ER kicks off a search to solve the genetic mystery of his illness. In the process, she and her husband undergo testing — that reveals an unexpected and deadly genetic surprise of her own. In searching for answers for her son, her own life was saved. For this, she considers him her guardian angel.

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Prompt: I‘m an Angel
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I legitimately laughed out loud at this line from the memoir I‘m reading. When I was pregnant with my youngest son, I used to tell people that there were three of us making this baby: me, Ben and Jerry. 😄 My husband and I jokingly considered naming him Benjamin to commemorate the experience. 😀