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Pediatric RN, School Nurse, writer - Hands On Nursing In a Germ Factory
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Reminder during this time of increasing flu and GI bugs.
#schoolnursing #SchoolNurses
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PSA: Wash Your Hands
(think Baby Shark wash your hands)
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December 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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For some, the coming holidays can be stressful and sad. If you are one stressing, may you experience moments of love and light. For all, may your the next few days be merry and bright and all the things you wish them to be.
#ParentingJourney #parenting
#Grief
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The Wonder in a Child’s Eyes
How old are children when this phenomenon is lost?
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December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This a collaboration posted by Esther S-W yesterday. With no power yesterday morning, I finally am doing my usual Friday post today.
#ParentingJourney #grief #griefjourney #griefandloss #griefsupport
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TEARS, TOOLS and TREASURE by Nancy Eddy-Holroyd
A guest interview with another bereaved parent, sharing their own experience of child loss.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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A life time of learning for this girl and her proud family.
#Parenting #ParentingJourney #downsyndrome #downsyndromeawareness #disabilityawareness #disabilityinclusion
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A Screw is an Inclined Plane
and other Sheila-isms...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Baking yesterday. Better late than never?
#schoolnursing #SchoolNurses
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An “Ounce of Prevention” Holiday and Year-Round Safety Tips
💉 FYI: The flu season is heating up in the northeast.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I used to love holiday baking. Each time a child left the nest there was a period of adjustment. This time when Sheila "flew the coop," it's left me bereft at holiday baking time.
#ParentingJourney #parenting #grief #griefandloss #griefjourney
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Holiday Baking: Lovely or Stressful?
how about both...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The next few weeks will increase school nurse office visits. Are children catching "whatever's going around" or are their symptoms due to allergies and poor air circulation?
#schoolhealthcare #schoolnursing #SchoolNurses
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Is it Allergies, or Is it Illness?
Illness within school buildings gets cranking up during the winter months.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It is a season we can rail against for the commercialization of Christmas--or we can chose to do it another way. Make up your own traditions if you don't like the ones you see around you.
#parenting #ParentingJourney #grief #griefjourney #griefandloss
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Why Christmas Never Lasted One Day in Our House
Building Traditions One Day at a Time and One Year at a Time
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December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Is gratitude even possible when grieving for the loss of a child or other loved one?
This is a question I have asked myself frequently this past month.
Can grief and gratitude co-exist?
#SchoolNurses #schoolnursing #SchoolHealth #SchoolHealthCare
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Grief and Gratitude, Are They Mutually Exclusive?
Or Is This a Postprandial Slump?
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November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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What do those abbreviations mean? And the impact of how DOE downgrading degree programs may impact programs for children with special needs.
#parenting #disabilityawareness
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Alphabet Soup II
Jargoning or Acronyms use in Education and Medicine
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November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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From the Nurse's Desk:

#schoolnursing #SchoolNurses
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When a Flu Bug Comes a Crawling…
(the virus isn’t really a bug that crawls—flu viruses spread via respiratory droplets)
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November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Teaching civility, modeling manners begins at home and it can start right from early infancy on.
#downsyndrome #disabilityawareness #parenting #ParentingJourney
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Miss Manners Says…
(Why Am I Hearing the Theme Song of Family Feud?)
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November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Y'all oughta get your "yuks" at of my latest post.

#SchoolNurses #schoolnursing
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“Dear Parent or Guardian: A Child in Your Student’s Class has…”
Have you as a nurse ever sent this type of letter home?
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November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What's on my mind, facebook? Watching children grow up and leave the nest.
What is left? Memories... so many memories.
#disabilityawareness #downsyndromeawareness
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Photographs & Memories with a Side-order of Nostalgia
By now, I’m guessing, you have all figured out that I am a lousy photographer.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I'm talking about SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) over on Substack today. There is a bonus link to a recent article written by Teri Leigh, in my post.
#SchoolNursing #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder
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Is This Depression or is it Seasonal Affective Disorder?
What is SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder?
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November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Children as teachers? Children as leaders? Why not?

#downsyndrome #DownSyndromeSupport #disabilityawareness
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Reflections on a Dark and Dreary Day
As we move from Sheila’s favorite month, October, and enter the month of November, I find myself reflecting on some of the lessons Sheila taught me.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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It's that time of year when illnesses start hitting classrooms all over the country. Are you prepared?
#SchoolNursing

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Are the Sniffles a Cold Or From One of the “Triple Threat”: Flu, RSV or COVID?
Children are brought to the school nurses office for every sniffle, cough and complaint of “not feeling good.”
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In service to others--that is what Sheila aspired to on a daily basis. May we all be people that ask, "How can I help?"
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A New Day, A New Acolyte
Usually, I write something geared towards school nursing or the intersection of parenting and school nursing.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"Please check this post out! I received the honor of sharing a bit of Sheila's story with Alexander Lovell, PhD. Our stories are what happens when we open our hearts to people that "teach the teachers."
#downsyndromeawareness #celebratingdownsyndrome
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The Teachers We Didn't Expect
Life As We See It: On presence, grief, and the wisdom we almost missed
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October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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What's old is new again.

#SchoolNurses #schoolnursing
#downsyndromeawareness
#disabilityawareness
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Originally published on 3/21/24 World Down Syndrome Day.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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What we say matters. How we say it, also matters. Why I stand by people-first language.

#downsyndromeawareness #disabilityawareness
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When We Choose Identity-first Language, Are We Choosing Othering?
It is still Down Syndrome Awareness Month, so, in honor of Sheila I will keep mentioning it.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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When school nurses and teachers cannot agree; what can you do to improve communication?
#schoolnursing #SchoolNurses

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If We Could Wear Magic Glasses…
would we see each other’s roles with more compassion and understanding?
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October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It’s still Down syndrome Awareness month. Is having a child with a disability life ending? No. Is it life altering? Yes, in a positive way.
#downsyndromeawareness #downsyndrome #disabilityawareness
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Is Having a Disability a Gift or a Tragedy?
Hands On Nursing in a Germ Factory is a reader-supported publication.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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We remember a light in our lives that remains a glowing light in a liminal space. We celebrate her life and all the love she radiated to all she knew.

#schoolnursing #SchoolNurses
#downsyndrome #downsyndromeawareness
#disabilityawareness

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Down Syndrome Awareness Month
In Memory of our daughter with Down syndrome
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October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Down syndrome awareness month and Sheila's 2nd deathiversary are right around the corner.

#downsyndrome #downsyndromeawareness #DisabilityAwareness
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“So Close!”
“Rats!
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September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM