Roll Call

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,HHi. We are the sen's from Rhode Island. I have been a member of Upsndowns

I guess since around 1996 when we were living in Florida. We are Kurt( going to

URI for finance, done in spring 2009) Kathy substitute teacher aide , Karissa 25

works for a local bank and atends URI also done in 2009 in communications,

14 DS and Kendall 13, too pretty and smart for her own good!

is in 9th grade this year and doing well. She made 9th grade student of

the month for October and high honors for first quarter. Unfortunately most of

the honor is due to my helping her with the insane " common tasks " that the kids

must do to go in their " portfolio " for diploma requirements. Thse tasks are

going to put me in a straight jacket. They say that she is held to the same

grade span expectations as the other kids but they will and do modify her work.

They are saying that she will graduate with a diploma which I hear is not always

good for our kids. My husband is pushing for the diploma unfortunately he is NOT

the one who is helping her to complete all these tasks and homework.

On to health, had ASD and VSD at birth. VSd needed repair in June 94.

She has had two sets of tubes, a pharyngeal flap surgery in 04 and this past

April we found out that she had gallstones and needed a vaginoplasty. She had

started her period and the blood could not be realeased as she did not have the

complete vagina. Yeah you read that right. So they used a piece of sigmoid colon

and created a new one for her. They removed her gallbaldder laporoscopically the

week before the vaginal surgery.She also takes leviothyroxin for her thyroid, i

think she has hypothyroidism although she showed antibodies for both hypo and

hyper.

Kathy