Child Content
What's it all about?

• Table of contents
• Introduction
• If you have a medical problem
• Why kids get sick
• About special needs

Lots of Stories
• "Sally Goes to School"
• "The Nurse's Great Idea"
• "Kinka"
• Anthony: leukemia
• Jessica: neurofibromatosis
• Ashley: cerebral palsy
• Mysti: Pseudotumor ceribri
• Jess: lupus
• Trudy: Vater's syndrome
  
About operations
• Angela: cystic fibrosis
• Matt: spondo-epiphiseal-dysplasia
• Tyler: neuroblastoma
• Peggy: bipolar disorder
• Thomas: leukemia
• Trevor: Wilm's tumor
• Elizabeth: muscular dystrophy
• Quinn: ataxia
• Katy: amputation
• Yum Yum: sickle cell disease
• Margaret: Spinal muscular atrophy
• Devon: chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction
• Children: ADD
• Children: asthma and diabetes
• Devin: Hirschprung's disease
• Emily and Amanda: asthma
• Kathryn: otosclerosis
• Ashley: cerebral palsy
• Christophe:xeroderma pigmentosum
• Brittany: hydrocephalus
• Courtney: maple-sugar disease
• Chris: celiac disease
• JJ: hemophilia
• Conor: multiple hereditary exostoses 
• Nicole: ditto-MHE
• Bobby: double ditto-MHE
• Megan: asthma
• Courtney: g-tube
• Brianna:VACTERL
• Becca: tetralogy of Fallot
• Christopher: autism
• Craig: Moebius syndrome
• Robyn: Moebius syndrome
• Kristina: Moebius syndrome
• Jonathan: cystic fibrosis
• Melanie: sickle cell disease
• Andy-Gabriel: Behcet's disease
• Ashly: skeletal dysplasia
• Corinna: Moebius syndrome
• Ashley: leukemia
• Colton: diabetes
• EmaLee: pseudo tumor cerebri?
• Jackie: cystic fibrosis
• Sage: Von Willebrand's disease
• Michael: leukemia
• Rashad: rhabdomyosarcoma
• Zachary: neurofibromatosis
• Libby: hypogammaglobulemia
• Emily: Tourettes, ocd, etc.
  
• Courtney: hydrocephalus, etc.
  

Brothers and sisters
• Jeff's note to his Mom
• Ben explains Maddy's "rainbow"
• Natassya's lesson
• Kat and Matt: kaboom
• Learn about sibshops
• A bright sunny day

Ever been to the hospital?
•  Just clowning around
• Amanda's M.R.I.
• The Children't Virtual Hospital 
• Come take a tour

Imagery for Children
• A daydream for sick kids
• Yarden and his imagination
• A letter to siblings
• The rainbow ritual

To tell or not to tell?
• Invisible medical conditions
• To tell or not to tell
• When problems aren't visible
• What I've learned about life
• Finding what's special
• Sharing secrets

Bodies, minds and mixups
• Amazing trivia about bodies
• The scavenger hunt
• Bet you didn't know this! 
• When things don't work

Hopping Around
• Back to the frog ponds
• To the kids' contents
• To the teens' contents
• To the adult pages
• Some favorite ponds
• Stories from kids:other ponds

Poems about medical problems 
• Bumpy bones: mhe
• Breathe in, breathe out: asthma
• I'm so sweet: diabetes
• Leukemia and me
• About Moebius

And some more poems 
• Reflections on muscular dystrophy
• Blessed are you
• When you ask

Freebies for kids with   medical problems

• What am I, Chopped Liver?
• Plastic Eggs or Something...
• Back to School
• Diabetes game
• And much more


Site Recognition

• The stars are shining
• Thanks for your letters
 

 
Teen Content
What's it all about?
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• The good, the bad and the ugly
• Sharing secrets

Lots of stories
• Katie: Grave's disease
• Rebecca: scoliosis
• Alexis: CP, SCD, lupus...
• Adam: Crohn's disease
• Maddy: Ewing's sarcoma
• Dani: Rett syndrome
• Heather: rheumatoid arthritis
• Megan: arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• Laura: aplastic anemia
• Georgianna: kidney stones
• Liz: arteriovenous malformation
• Emmah: bipolar disorder
• Natalie: Moebius syndrome
• Joe: adhd, asthma
• Stephanie: anklyosing spondylitis
• Lily: diabetes
• Kelly:fibromyalgia
• Jayme: vocal cord paralysis
• Nava: Beckwith Weidemann 
• Rachel: protein-losing enteropathy
• Betsy: reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Tonia: cerebral palsy
• Megan: brain tumor
• Shannon: avm
• Lacey: spina bifida
• Jackie: GERD
• Marina: CP. BPD
• Amity: MVA
• Ashley:fibromyalgia, IBS
• Jen: neurofibromatosis
• Jamie: psoriasis"ish"
• Kelly: cp, Raynaud's
• Oriana: Down syndrome
• Sophie: Hirschprung's disease
• Jenny: scoliosis plus
• Minna: physical disability
• Bridget: lupus, fibromyalgia
• Christina: irritable bowel sydrome
• Litaya: nephrotic sydndrome
• Heather: congenital heart disease
• Jonathan: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Ryan: VATERS association
• Tieanna: lupus
• Lauren: porphyria
• Troy: liver transplant
• Mariane: osteosarcoma
• Liz: muscular dystrophy, etc.
• Lauren: asthma, eczema, etc.
• Chantal: Rett syndrome
• Matt: CP, arthritis, visual impairment

  Sibling stories: teens
• Lucy: sisterhood explained
• Jennifer: life with Reba
• Sara writes about her brother
• Jessica and Justin
• Your Shout, for teen sibs                              
  

Art, Essays, Photos
• Advice to those who look different 
• To Maddy...with love 
• Future,,,Freedom...Friends 
• My wheelchair can fly
• Truly beautiful
• Life and death
• Making it to the top
• I hate it!
• Special needs?
• About assumptions
• Yes, I do exist
• Making it to the top
• Tiptoeing around the elephant

Everybody
Poems from the experts
• Maddy's poems 
Prologue
See Me
Today it's Me
The War
Beyond the Hat
Why? 
Window on my soul
• Daniella's poems 
Paperwork
Tired
Favorite things?
Flash
• Managing pain
• Lauren's poems
  
• Illness and me
• I have the courage
• When you visit
• Chemo and relapse
• I am
• Mattie's poems
• Thinking about Heaven
• Recipe for...me
• Alone
• Awkward school situation
• I never saw when they cleaned off his desk
• My, oh my
• Red and pink
• Through my eyes
• Graduation
• Mirror
• I'm home
• Bullying

Finding support 
• A cyber-place teens and their sibs
  
• Disability central: teens
• Dealing with chronic illness
• Healing well, many resources
• Great video on coping with chemo

All about teasing
• Sticks and stones
• The teasebusters
• The things people say
• A tip from some twins
• Lessons from a puppy
• It takes a little faith
• Some hints about teasing
• The game of life
• The conversation
• Rubber balls bounce
• More about teasing
• Learning a lesson
• Bullies to buddies
• Teaseproof your kids

 

Adult Content
What's it all about?
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• About the title
• Clouds have silver linings
• Intro: "Sally Goes to School"
• On line privacy protection
• Experts share their tips

Especially for parents
• Parental permission
• The lowdown on teasing
• All the silver linings
• Raising a child with a disability
• Encountering disabilities
• Finding Nemo, finding a hero
• Lynn's advice
• A lesson from Debbie
• A teacher's reminder
• A hospital orientation
• Tips for parents
• Strategies for IEP success
• Great transition resources
• Laws that protect Band-Aide experts
• Section 504 of the Rehab Act
• Social Security benefits 
• Hidden disabilities? legal protection
• A father copes
• Lessons in coping
• Parenting in the hospital
• Clinical assessment of children
• The need to fly
• Guilt, the gift that keeps on giving
• Siblings in the storm of illness 
• How to talk to children about death
• Chat with a pediatrician
• Sick teen? School strategies that work
• Blaming hurts
• A moment in my life
  

Siblings
• Sibling relationships
• Through the eyes of a sibling
• Sibling resources
• A brother remembers

Adults remember when
• Sandy S: polycystic kidney
• Sandy G.: Moebius Syndrome
• Martin: benign congenital hypotonia
• Barbara K: ITP
• Barbara R: deafness
• Fiona: M.E., CFIDS
• Judy: polio
• Joel: brain tumor
• Lynn: depression
• Joe: bi-polar illness
• Keara: congenital strabismus, etc.
• Angela: cerebral palsy
• Robert: spina bifida
• Amanda: asthma, allergies, depression
• Lori: kidney transplants
• Jan: essential tremor

Hospitals
• Hospital orientation
• Hospital tour
• When you visit
• Just standing by: a poem

Especially for health pros
• Tips for nurses 
• Bullying: implications for practice 
• The power of belief
• Tips for doctors
• Nursing tales
• Take parents seriously
• To all doctors...everywhere
• The dot hope face of the Internet

Especially for teachers
• Hints for teachers
• Tips for teachers 
• Teaching tales
• About inclusion
• A letter to my teacher
• Kids health problems
  
• Three little pigs: asthma
• Kids on the block: a resource
• Lesson plan: band-aides...
• About those band-aides, excellent resources
• Classroom activities
• Cultivating self esteem
• Know your classmates with special needs
• Helping children cope with grief
• Inclusion: Yours, mine and ours
• Teacher talk: adolescent mental health
• Helping children: death
• Fun zone from Pfizer
• Do you know about Flat Stanley?
• Chronic illness in school

Other Ponds
• Info on diseases, support
• Disease? great resource
• Videos of surgical procedures
• Parent advocacy for children
• Drug, supplement, and herbal info
• Some wishes come true
• Parents helping parents
• Affection connection
• Locks of love for kids who want hair
• Angels for hope
• A list of weird medical words
• Interactive health tutorials
• All about medical devices
• About visual impairments
• Does your child have cancer?
• Helping children cope with shyness
• Fathers of kids with special needs
• Dictionary about disabilities
• Is your child in pain?
• Managing managed care
• Medical problems? An on-line community
• Major illness? Fly free
• Critical illness? Family camp
• Free medicines
• Special service dogs for special kids
• Brave kids, a resource center
• Approaching adulthood?
• Everyday warriers
• Surviving a parent's death

Evaluation
• Won't you be a critic?
• What's important to you?
• To send me a note.


Angels in the Wings