SUMMER. We crave it throughout the cold winters (especially here in New York), but when it finally arrives, it can be a fair-weather friend. We’ve all said it once, maybe even a hundred times, when discovering illnesses or conditions in our children. “Wait, what’s THAT?!” And doesn’t it surprise us in the summer? Who gets […]
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The Connors’ third child, Michael, is chubby, robust and with clear skin except for one little problem. He has a history of convulsions nearly every time he falls asleep. No one on either side of the family had neurological issues or seizure disorders. The parents were understandably distraught. Mother Caroline was doing everything she
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That itching. Those vesicles. As the mother of three active boys I knew all too well what they meant. My boys were into the poison ivy again. Maybe your kids, like mine, have recently made the discovery of a little three-leafed plant that left them covered in blisters that itched and spread wherever they
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