A woman from Hoylake is climbing Mount Snowdown in the hopes of raising money for her 3-year-old niece who was diagnosed with a brain tumour on her third birthday. Elaine Hyder, auntie to Aria, will be taking on the challenge on June 5 in the hopes of raising awareness around Aria’s condition, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). DIPG is a terminal, inoperable and untreatable aggressive brain tumour with 1% of children making it to five years from diagnosis. Elaine said: “Doing this challenge means a lot to us as with DIPG being such an underfunded area of research, we really want to raise awareness.”
Confessions of a Special Needs Dad: Advocating for Our Disabled Children
I m so grateful for the amazing response from so many of you after my column last week discussing some of my experiences with two of my four children who were born with disabilities. If you missed that column, give it a read. I plan on writing a series of these mini-memoirs reflecting on my experiences with my oldest child (now 21) with Cerebal Palsy and my youngest child (now 14), who is on the autism spectrum.
I m calling these reflections Confessions of a Special Needs Dad because our society has embraced the special needs label as a catch-all description of any child who doesn t necessarily fit into the typical cookie-cutter parenting or educational mold found in most parenting columns or books.
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Subscriber only HAVING won 11 medals and achieved six personal bests from 13 swims in three days, Poppy Wilson deserves a short break. However, the Woogaroo swimmer couldn t resist a Christmas Eve session in the pool and a 5km run a day earlier after such a massive workload at the latest Queensland championships. Wilson, who turns 17 in January, produced another fantastic series of swims in her 15/16 multi-class events and open competition. The outstanding competitor won age group gold medals in the 400m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley. She added a silver in the 100m butterfly and bronze in the 50m freestyle.
for suzanne malveaux. we are focusing on protests in california, politics and the economy right here at home. straight to it. the mother of baseball hall of famer cal ripken has been found unharmed. ripken seen here with ex-administration, bush administration officials condoleezza rice and karen hughes gained fame as a shortstop with the baltimore orioles. well, the aberdeen police department says that his mother was abducted yesterday after a man with a gun forced her into a car. earlier this morning, ms. ripken was located in her car close to the home, and she was examined by paramedics, and she is not injured. she is resting now with family members. we will get more on this crime from joe johns in d.c. very bizarre. how did this happen? for sure, fred. a strange story developing here. vai ripken is the mother of one of the most famous baseball players ever. police confirming that she was abducted from her home at gunpoint early yesterday morning and police say reports in