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Back to School and More…

Special Needs, Medical, Parenting, Complex, Chronic, Tools, Resources, Support, back to school Casey went back to school this week. She does home bound, so back to school is really back to her playroom. She is in 4th grade this year. She has the same teacher and most of the same therapists working with her, which …

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We’ve Gone Social

Social Media, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, audience Special Needs, Medical, Parenting, Complex, Chronic, Tools, Resources, Support In order to try and expand our audience a little, we have gone social! CaseyBarnes.org can now be followed on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram! You will be able to connect to our social media sites by clicking on …

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Summer Wrap Up

It is hard to believe, but it is already half way through August. Wow! Sadly, we kind of missed the entire summer. Between illnesses (all of us), our nursing schedule being out of whack and work travel we really didn’t do much for the summer. We barely even made it to the pool right outside …

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Presentation

Next week I have been asked to present at a conference for healthcare professionals. It will be mainly NICU nurses and staff, but it is open to others as well so I am sure there will be a good mix of people. A company that makes products we have used since Casey was born hosts …

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2015 Holiday Events

We will have more details for these events as we get closer, but be sure to save the date for this year’s holiday events. 2015 Special Needs Holiday Party We are teaming up with CPATH again this year for our annual Special Needs Holiday Party. This year we have also teamed up with the Palliative …

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Moving On

Many of you know that I partnered up with another mom from Ohio a few years ago to run a support organization for mother’s of children with special needs, Mommies of Miracles- MOM. I am very proud of all of the work that was accomplished over this time. I have put a lot of my …

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Traveling Daddy

Tim usually has to go to India for work ever 12-18 months. He went in April this year and then ended up taking on some additional responsibilities that led to an extra trip early July. He got home and then 1 week later had to go back yet again. Usually we have lots of time …

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Updated Site

We have made some updates on Casey’s main webpage- caseybarnes.org.  We will leave this blog up for anyone that may have saved links to direct posts, but all future posts will be done within Casey’s page.  All of the past post have been copied to her page as well. 

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Swimming Pools & Movie Stars…

A few weeks ago we were asked to be part of a pretty cool project.  There is a new website going up for families like ours (with kids that have special needs).  This website is all about support for parents, and not so focused on diagnosis and medical details.  The website uses videos to share …

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Summer is Finally Here!

The weather has been crazy this year.  I know we needed the rain, but I was starting the wonder if it was ever going to stop.  Usually by this time of year we have had multiple 100+ degree days, everyone is either tan or burned, no one wants to get in their car if it …