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There’s a 12 year old girl on the other side of the world waiting for God to take her home.



I’ve never met her- or her mother for that matter- but my heart is breaking for them both.



As a parent, you never expect to outlive your children. It’s just not the way it’s supposed to be.



And as a mother, you simply never expect there to come a time when your child decides it’s time to stop fighting, and asks you let her go.



But as I write this, that’s… Continue

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Clinical Guideline for Diagnosis and Management LIVE simultaneous Satellite Television Broadcast and Webcast



Tuesday 9th February 2010 (8.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Repeated broadcast Friday 12th February at 12:30pm AEDT.



Produced by the Rural Health Education Foundation with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing



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Hi all. It's been a horrible week and a half for Charleen. She just came out of hospital yesterday. She started with high fevers and flu symptoms and then 2 days after that had explosive watery diahrea (even when she slept). I took her to the hospital at 4am Friday morning and the dr said it's just a virus and sent us home.

After being home a couple of hours I could see she was getting worse by way of dehydration and took her back. Another dr was there that knows Charleen well (as well as… Continue

With summer coming on I started thinking it was the right time for a refresher course in swimming.



Oh not for me- I avoid a swimsuit like a cat avoids a bath- no, for the children (who have no qualms about being seen in spandex- or even in their undies if the urge strikes).



Since we happen to live on one mighty big island, with our home nestled between a lake and an ocean, I’m all for teaching water safety from a very early age. I mean, it takes a… Continue