Ashley Archive

Not all mushrooms are poisonous

Today Angelina Jolie told the world that she had a preventive double mastectomy. It turns out she has a certain mutation of the BRCA1 (BReast CAncer) gene that caused her doctors to say that she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. Hence the preventive removal of her

Simple question

As I mentioned, I am writing a post for a main stream publication on Growth Attenuation, also called the Ashley Treatment. (see here if you are not familiar) I just submitted it, I will keep you informed. The reasons for the treatment typically start with talk of “quality of life” for the child. Really? Here

“A little emasculated mass of inanity.” ~Teddy Roosevelt on Henry James

I’ve been given the opportunity to write in a main stream magazine’s web edition about growth attenuation (GA) otherwise known as the Ashley Treatment. I will be doing so and will keep you informed. While doing some research (to make sure I don’t sound too foolish …) I finally found the answer to the question “Has anyone

You know what I hate … ?

I hate when an anonymous blogger, in his or her anonymous persona, puts up an anonymous blog about an important topic and then people comment that the blogger has no idea what it is like to be the parent of a severely disabled young lady when in fact the author of the comment has no

“You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.” ~Toni Morrison

I just read this touching post over at UnlockTheSecretVoice, it is entitled “Community.” And, yes, SingleDad has an opinion, glad you asked. Claire, she no more of Life With A Severely Disabled Child, (and we know why she needed to bail on that blog; are all men morons?) wrote, in part, in a comment on