Hi, and welcome!

Hi, and welcome. :)

Hi :) Welcome..

And sure, lizards are cool. :D

Hi!

I've never had that happen.

IMO, you shouldn't HAVE to tell her... She should be doing that anyway.

That said... tell her asap..

I was nervous about that too.. IT actually didn't hurt at all. I think the worst part for me was baring all and having some guy I'd never seen before down there lol...

Aww thanks...

He has microtia and atresia. His right ear is not fully formed..

Some of his pediatricians have pushed the surgery to reconstruct the outer ear so that kids at school wouldn't pick on him...

My ex and I were always of the opinion that if his condition didn't affect the way he learned, etc, then we wouldn't do it until he was old enough to be consulted on the matter. We would rather build his self esteem to deal with kids picking on him about it, etc, rather than 'fix' him as if he were broken. (And we did deal with that when he started kindergarten, but he was great and so was his teacher.)

Now it is affecting him and the audiologists say it will just get worse if we don't do something about it now.

I know he's going to be fine... I just hate the thought of him having to go through something so.. drastic. He's my baby... lol.

Thanks again to you all... <3

Bingo.

I like it. ;)

My oldest son has an appt with a team of ENTs and plastic surgeons tomorrow.. He was born without an ear canal and his hearing in that ear is very poor.

He's been having trouble in school paying attention when someone isn't working with him (he's in 1st grade), so we took him to an audiologist. He's got scarring in his good ear which is affecting his hearing in that ear too.

So basically they said it'd be a good idea to see if surgery could be done on his ear to open it up, and if not, at least he'll need a hearing aide.

A representative from a school for the deaf and hard of hearing evaluated him in his classroom, and they've set up some sort of microphone system for him right now, which seems to be helping.

I'm nervous because when he was really little we took him to specialists and they said that the surgery was really risky... and that part of it involved harvesting rib cartilage. That's so scary to me!

Plus, my son is nervous and I cant blame him.. I've been trying my best to keep him calm about it, but inside I'm freaking out myself!



Ok... thanks for reading. I just needed to get that off my chest...

Mind.. and humor.

A little more south...

Thanks for the advice. :)

(And thanks for the 60 yr old virgin thing. ;) )

I plan to be very cautious, especially because of the little ones... And its good to remind myself that not everyone is nice...

Mmm.. Cuddle. :) Lay in bed and relax. Talk.

Still early here... :)

Am I the only one, or are there more among us?

I got with my ex when I was 15... We never really 'dated' like most people do. Fast forward 11 years and here I am...

Hmm... so tell me I'm not alone. ;) And.. what should I know?

Nope, I haven't.... But that's hilarious Peccy!

I'm very sorry for your loss...

My son is like that... lol. He's been checking out ladies since he was still in diapers...

It makes me nervous for his teen years lol.

Hmm... I can only say that I didn't love him the way I should have and have to leave it at that.

I was with him for 11 years. There weren't any other relationships to f* up... lol.