Shasta Kearns Moore

1 week ago | medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore

Hello everyone!I had to triple-check the date and yes we really did start this journey in May 2021 and that means we are now entering Year Five of Medical Motherhood! It has been an incredible experience and I will go ahead and pat myself on the back for providing you with news and information for more than 200 weeks now. Wow!A huge thank you to those who make this work possible: our paid subscribers, especially those who have been here since the beginning.

1 week ago | medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore

It is time once again for the Medical Motherhood Games! This is our second annual contest celebrating those little victories in our lives. What are you going to submit? The Midnight Pharmacy Dash? The Health Insurance Decathlon?

2 weeks ago | medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore

It was another yo-yo news cycle this week. CBS News first reported that “…a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism.” This was based on comments from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Monday. (Side note: Despite my digging, I’m still not clear where exactly Bhattacharya said this.

3 weeks ago | medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore

Hello friends,This week’s news that an Idaho teen was shot and killed by police in a completely avoidable misunderstanding is harrowing and potentially triggering. Unfortunately, most weeks somewhere in the country there is an awful story of abuse, filicide, neglect or fraud against a child with an intellectual or developmental disability.

1 month ago | medicalmotherhood.com | Shasta Kearns Moore

There are certainly those moments when we want to quit. When the obstacles feel too high and the systems too difficult to navigate. But nothing will keep Clarissa Kent (aka the Disability Defender) down for long. Quitting is not an option when it comes to our kids!On the second Sunday of every month, we feature Where is the Manual for This?!, an editorial cartoon about the medical mom life from Lenore Eklund. Medical Motherhood is a reader-supported publication.