One of the most prolific gestational surrogates ever, Meredith Olafson, just retired her uterus–after 11 surrogate births, including six c-sections. Olafson, a 47-year old nurse in North Dakota who also has four children of her own, carried three singletons, a set of twins, and two sets of triplets for other families. Meredith’s gestational heroics have been…
Author: carl
Self-Injury and your child
I received a phone call from the respite provider. Seems our son was frustrated about something that he stole. So he stabbed himself with a pencil. Twice. What makes a person self-injure? How does that feel good? In the coming weeks I will be doing some research about this topic with the hope of shedding…
Thoughts and Memories – My friend Stan
You can find Stan’s obituary here: http://www.korsmofuneralservice.com/fullobit.cfm?ID=1716 You can find my first post about Stan here. I sent an email out to everyone in Stan’s address book yesterday. I started getting phone calls and emails this morning from those who knew him. Here are excerpts of those: Stan was Stan. He didn’t apologize for who…