My cell rang and it was U of M. The typical number that comes across for all departments regardless of what they are calling for; 734.232.0000 (not that I have it memorized). Most of the time this is a call reminding us of Camden’s various therapy appointments but this particular call was a call we
Author: Kara MacMillan
A little fast forward to where we are today. This is now happening… I was finally able to hear what all ‘Mama’s’ get so elated to hear. Did you hear that? Mama! 😍 Not only Mama, but Mama in a short assisted sentence! Melts my heart. It took 3.5 years but it was well worth
We recently returned from our trip out to Mayo clinic and I realized I haven’t updated our blog in a while. I will wait to update on what we learned at Mayo until we have our video appointment with Camden’s Mayo Neurologist in November. Until then I will continue with the road that has lead
I think us announcing that we were expecting again was more of a surprise to people the second time around than the first. After navigating all of this with Camden as well as building a house and living with family (yes, this really did happen) most people would consider this crazy; but I have to
The title of my first post was ‘the road less traveled’ and this explains exactly how I was feeling. I don’t know about all of you, but at the time we only knew one other family that had a child with special needs but they had a definitive diagnosis. We were not armed with the
I spent the majority of my days trying to put one foot in front of the other. I don’t think I smiled for months; if I did it was just so I didn’t make other people feel uncomfortable but I was hiding so much of what I was feeling on the inside. I talked to
On April 21st 2015 we were back checking in on Floor 6, Reception C. Going into this appointment there was not a lot of anxiety; in fact Craig was scheduled to be out of town for work and we didn’t think it would be that big of deal for him to miss this appointment. As
It was our first time setting foot into The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital on January 21st 2015. Camden was now 7 months old. The Pediatric Neurology Department is on the same floor as Pediatric Genetics. We didn’t realize it at the time but we were going to be spending a lot of
Camden William (after Craig’s Dad) MacMillan was born on June 6th 2014. His birth story is far from a ‘typical’ delivery but not anything that had us worried right from the get go…at least not when this was our first ‘rodeo’. I will get more into the complications during pregnancy and delivery on a follow
It has been a while since our last MacMillan update over on our previous blog….two and a half years. The last two and half years have been a long and winding road; one that is a little different from what most families experience with the addition of two children. Our journey has had us navigating
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