What is the worth of a life?

As I stood watching a medical team make an assessment of  Parker’s many issues after his first life flight to Primary Medical Center, a Pediatrician made his way toward me and shared this bit of reality: Over 50% of all marriages end after the birth of a child with special needs. Over 50%. This was… [Continue Reading]

Things that make me want to smack someone…..

Parker’s been sick.  Throwing up.  Fever.  Diapers from h@ll.   We’ve been trying to get an appointment into GI for the last several days.  Every time I call, I get a message telling me to leave a message.  I leave the required message.  Then I get my call returned FROM GENERAL SURGERY. WTH?  If I… [Continue Reading]

Carl Wimmer: Making it harder to keep kids alive everywhere.

It all started with a tweet: @CarlWimmer: “It’s wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that ‘compassion’. Carl, a Representative for the state of Utah, may have been a bit surprised to discover that that one tweet could lead to this: Defining charity: the LDS Church and Carl… [Continue Reading]

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