Day 117 - Sept 25, 2008

Kevin had his first somewhat solid food today - Stouffers Mac & Cheese. He was
so excited - his face just lit right up when I showed it to him. He also did
better with eating it than with the cheesecake and mashed potatoes. We believe
he has limited feeling at this point in his mouth; mainly in front of his teeth
and his tongue. We have noticed it’s gotten better daily, but his tongue still
pushes the food out and he has to suck the food back in. It doesn't help that he can't truly close his lips. He's getting there and I saw it one time, but we have more practice to go on that one.

I know one thing - he is just dying for pizza. We went outside today and we have
to pass the pizza place on our way and as we walked by, he just held his hand out
and was making all kinds of noises to try to get us to give him some. Thank
goodness he knows he can’t have that yet and does it all in fun. I am wondering
if we can give him very small bites of Pizza Hut’s pan pizza because it is very
soft. I am going to run it by the speech pathologist and see what she says. I
just bet she tells me to be patient, once again, lol.

It’s just hard to be patient because he is doing so well, kwim?

We did take him to the gym today and he was able to play some basketball (with
one of those child hoops and ball). He did very well. And we worked quite a bit
on increasing his abdominal strength. We need to get those stronger so that he can use the automatic lift that they have above each of the beds on this ward.

That pretty much sums up what went on today with Kevin. I know a few of you
asked here on the blog and I also got more than a few emails from people wanting
to know why Tim and Beth’s blog is down. To make a long story short - Breezy
found a newspaper article that was written by an unsuspecting journalist and it
had parts of my blog written in it with Tim and Beth claiming them as
their words. Basically, they stole my words (and my pictures) and put them on
their blog as if they wrote them. Outright plagiarism. I knew they were on
there from the getgo and I was nice enough to let that go, but once the words
were in print and the article made it appear that Tim was here and struggling
with all of the issues that have went on during Kevin’s recovery - I realized I
could not let things go any longer. Breezy was so angry when she came across the
article and I had to step up and force them to take it down. I am still
considering pressing charges - the law is on my side as I do have proof that I
wrote the words - but I have not decided yet. I told them they need to publicly
admit what they did to stop me from filing the lawsuit. I am tired of them making me out to be the bad guy when I am not the one doing wrong. And I’m not even going to
get into the fact that the blog was full of lies - ones that hurt my kids.

So there it is. I am sure that their friends will come on here and slam me, but
it doesn’t matter to me. I only care about my kids and how they react to the
things around them. Breezy read their blog faithfully and was always so mad
about the things they wrote. I kept telling her to look the other way as I did,
but once a line was crossed, I even had to say something. I only wish that
people would look at the facts instead of hearing the lies, but I guess people
are always loyal when they don’t see both sides. I am lucky in that everyone
that knows me personally knows what has really happened all these years.

And to finish up, I am going to link to the newspaper’s blog posting for you all
to see what was written. I will say one thing - the journalist is a wonderful
woman and she made things right for us. I know that she didn’t know the truth
and she only read their blog and felt it was such a sad story, but I just can't allow it to continue. After all, if they hadn't stolen my words and claimed them as their own - no article would have been written and I would have looked away as I have all this time. Their blog would have been able to remain online and it's nobody's fault but their own that it had to come down.

So here are the articles (both the first and the one that made things right):

Article 1

Article 2

And I might as well say it now while I am ranting - to the anonymous person that posted "forgiveness" a few days ago - it's not about forgiveness. It's about protecting your kids and any good parent would do anything in their power to keep their children safe and happy.

I personally don't like Tim. How can anybody like somebody that gives every excuse he can think of as to why he walked away from his kids. But what I want doesn't matter. If you think about it - I signed papers allowing Tim to come here. I even had his trip paid for so it wouldn't cost him out of pocket. Does that sound like someone that is willing to hurt her kids to get back at her ex? Not to me, it doesn't. So once again - it's not about forgiveness. It's about my kids!