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Episode 99: Raising a Child With Multiple Complex Medical Conditions With Guest Tammy Flynn In this episode, guest Tammy Flynn discusses raising children with complex medical conditions. Her son Marcus has numerous complex medical conditions, including Ehlers Danlos syndrome, Sherman’s kyphosis, EOE (eosinophilia of the esophagus), a bleeding disorder, encephalopathy upon birth, low tone, poor fine motor skills, differently shaped ear canals, slow motility, reflux( as a child), and cancerous moles on his back.   Other than heavy morning sickness that spanned her pregnancy, her pregnancy was relatively normal. Toward the end, she thought her water broke, but it turned out that she was hemorrhaging. The labor and delivery ended up being pretty normal. Marcus was initially jaundiced and had difficulty with feeding from the beginning. Once he started feeding, he started throwing up a lot. He got an infection early on in life and kept getting infections. Marcus bounced from doctor to doctor, with them trying to figure out what was going on. He kept having ear infections, was failure to thrive, was throwing up all of his feeds, and was very developmentally delayed. Doctors didn’t know what was going on. At his 9 month visit, Tammy brought up her concerns with the pediatrician, and it was recommended that Marcus start PT and OT. At that time, he was functioning at the level of a one month old. Tammy felt like she was in a whirlwind, as her other 2 children had lots of activities going on, and Tammy was running a business as well. When he was 3, Marcus had a nerve and muscle biopsy done, which revealed brain encephalopathy. This started her down the road of obtaining additional services, including feeding therapy and speech therapy. They started seeing a lot of specialists, but still were not getting answers. 10 years later, a doctor re-looked at the nerve and muscle biopsy that had been done when Marcus was 3, and found that it was done wrong, and wasn’t a good enough sample to give them enough answers. Marcus  was involved in therapies on a daily basis. Around age 12, Marcus started to look hunched over. He underwent imaging and results showed Sherman’s kyphosis and he was fitted for a back brace. Once he got to 97 degrees hunched over, they started doing genetic testing to see what they should do next. The doctors started looking at possible syndromes to try to figure out what condition Marcus had. When he was 19 years old, Marcus’ spine started collapsing. They needed to decide quickly whether they would operate or not. Therefore, they went on a strict diet, did therapies and exercises every day, and tried to get in him the best shape possible for the best possible outcome for surgery. He underwent the 10 hour surgery and remained in the hospital for weeks afterward. He then did in-home therapies for months.   Tammy found that social support and connection with other medical parents key to helping her son. She found that reaching out to the organization related to the diagnosis was really helpful to get recommendations for treatments and doctors. She also found creating an incredible medical team and firing anyone who isn’t a good fit very helpful for Marcus. Give yourself a moment to allow yourself to feel your emotions. However, try not to bring those feelings to the medical appointments. When Tammy gets a new overwhelming diagnosis, she schedules a follow up appointment to come back and ask all the questions, so she can give herself time to cope emotionally.   For hospital stays and ER visits, have a GO bag packed, with activities, things to do, things that bring you joy, work to do, a toiletries bag, things to help your child feel more comfortable, and things that will make you feel more comfortable. For children who have multiple conditions, keep a packet with diagnoses, medications, adverse reactions, where they find spot to drop blood off at, lists of specialists and doctors, hospital numbers, and scheduling numbers. Start making your chart early, and add to it. List out how the conditions affect your child, what the treatments are currently, and everything that changes. Update the chart every 6 months to a year. Work on building your case for services, when they are needed. Keep the medications organized. Listen to podcasts, Find low costs tools. Talk to others who have been through the same things. Use your state organizations when you need information.   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Show Music: Intro Outro: Intro Outro 2 by Mattias Lahoud under CC-BY 3.0 License (www.freesound.org) Theme Song: 90s rock style by monkeyman535 under CC-BY 3.0 License (www.freesound.org) Self Care Song: Green and Orange No Water by Duncan Alex under CC-BY 3.0 License (www.freesound.org)   Hosted by: Jessica Temple and Lewis Temple   Disclaimer: Our show is not designed to provide listeners with specific or personal legal, medical, or professional services or advice. Parents of children with health issues should always consult their health care provider for medical advice, medication, or treatment. Copyright 2021 Jessica Temple

Episode 99: Raising a Child With Multiple Complex Medical Conditions With Guest Tammy Flynn In this episode, guest Tammy Flynn discusses raising children with complex medical conditions. Her son Marcus has numerous complex medical conditions, including Ehlers Danlos syndrome, Sherman’s kyphosis, EOE (eosinophilia of the esophagus), a bleeding disorder, encephalopathy upon birth, low tone, poor fine motor skills, differently shaped ear canals, slow motility, reflux( as a child), and cancerous moles on his back. Other than heavy morning sickness that spanned her pregnancy, her pregnancy was relatively normal. Toward the end, she thought her water broke, but it turned out that she was hemorrhaging. The labor and delivery ended up being pretty normal. Marcus was initially jaundiced and had difficulty with feeding from the beginning. Once he started feeding, he started throwing up a lot. He got an infection early on in life and kept getting infections. Marcus bounced from doctor to doctor, with them trying to figure out what was going on. He kept having ear infections, was failure to thrive, was throwing up all of his feeds, and was very developmentally delayed. Doctors didn’t know what was going on. At his 9 month visit, Tammy brought up her concerns with the pediatrician, and it was recommended that Marcus start PT and OT. At that time, he was functioning at the level of a one month old. Tammy felt like she was in a whirlwind, as her other 2 children had lots of activities going on, and Tammy was running a business as well. When he was 3, Marcus had a nerve and muscle biopsy done, which revealed brain encephalopathy. This started her down the road of obtaining additional services, including feeding therapy and speech therapy. They started seeing a lot of specialists, but still were not getting answers. 10 years later, a doctor re-looked at the nerve and muscle biopsy that had been done when Marcus was 3, and found that it was done wrong, and wasn’t a good enough sample to give them enough answers. Marcus  was involved in therapies on a daily basis. Around age 12, Marcus started to look hunched over. He underwent imaging and results showed Sherman’s kyphosis and he was fitted for a back brace. Once he got to 97 degrees hunched over, they started doing genetic testing to see what they should do next. The doctors started looking at possible syndromes to try to figure out what condition Marcus had. When he was 19 years old, Marcus’ spine started collapsing. They needed to decide quickly whether they would operate or not. Therefore, they went on a strict diet, did therapies and exercises every day, and tried to get in him the best shape possible for the best possible outcome for surgery. He underwent the 10 hour surgery and remained in the hospital for weeks afterward. He then did in-home therapies for months. Tammy found that social support and connection with other medical parents key to helping her son. She found that reaching out to the organization related to the diagnosis was really helpful to get recommendations for treatments and doctors. She also found creating an incredible medical team and firing anyone who isn’t a good fit very helpful for Marcus. Give yourself a moment to allow yourself to feel your emotions. However, try not to bring those feelings to the medical appointments. When Tammy gets a new overwhelming diagnosis, she schedules a follow up appointment to come back and ask all the questions, so she can give herself time to cope emotionally. For hospital stays and ER visits, have a GO bag packed, with activities, things to do, things that bring you joy, work to do, a toiletries bag, things to help your child feel more comfortable, and things that will make you feel more comfortable. For children who have multiple conditions, keep a packet with diagnoses, medications, adverse reactions, where they find spot to drop blood off at, lists of specialists and doctors, hospital numbers, and scheduling numbers. Start making your chart early, and add to it. List out how the conditions affect your child, what the treatments are currently, and everything that changes. Update the chart every 6 months to a year. Work on building your case for services, when they are needed. Keep the medications organized. Listen to podcasts, Find low costs tools. Talk to others who have been through the same things. Use your state organizations when you need information. <a href="https://www.onairadvocate.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">On Air Advocate Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.onairadvocate.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blog</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OnAirAdvocate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/onairadvocate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theonairadvocate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxomBrWZBVxj1vtRmsRvwOA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a> <a href="https://www.missionmarcus.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mission Marcus</a> <a href="https://www.familyfirst.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Family voices</a> Links: <a href="mailto:midstofchaospod@gmail.com">Email us if you have any questions or ideas!</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/midstofchaospod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We are now on instagram!</a> <a href="https://www.midstofchaospod.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out updates on our website.</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/midstofchaospod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Follow Thriving on Twitter.</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Midstofchaospod/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check us out on Facebook!</a> <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/midstofchaospod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We are also on Pinterest!</a> Please subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store, or wherever you find your podcasts, Leave us a 5-star review, to help us know what you like and what you don't like, and to make sure other like-minded people find support through this podcast. Show Music: Intro Outro: Intro Outro 2 by Mattias Lahoud under CC-BY 3.0 License (<a href="http://www.freesound.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.freesound.org</a>) Theme Song: 90s rock style by monkeyman535 under CC-BY 3.0 License (<a href="http://www.freesound.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.freesound.org</a>) Self Care Song: Green and Orange No Water by Duncan Alex under CC-BY 3.0 License (<a href="http://www.freesound.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.freesound.org</a>) Hosted by: Jessica Temple and Lewis Temple Disclaimer: Our show is not designed to provide listeners with specific or personal legal, medical, or professional services or advice. Parents of children with health issues should always consult their health care provider for medical advice, medication, or treatment. Copyright 2021 Jessica Temple

Raising a Child With Multiple Complex Medical Conditions With Guest Tammy Flynn

MEET THE GUEST:Networker, motivator, change-maker, Tammy Flynn is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who never stops. Since she started her career at the age of 15, she’s launched and run more than four businesses, including direct sales beauty products, a salon and spa, an events company, and most recently, The On-Air Advocate, which supports, empowers and educates caregivers. A consummate networker, Tammy unites people while inspiring them to share their time, talent and energy with the community. A committed volunteer, she has tirelessly raised more than $500,000 for the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Make a Wish® Foundation. Tammy Flynn’s organizational talents, energy, and resourcefulness have brought recognition from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the State of Wisconsin, radio station 99WMYX, the County of Waukesha, City of New Berlin and the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce. Tammy comes a line of female entrepreneurs dating back to her grandmother and her mother.  At the young age of 15, Tammy entered the world of business through cosmetic sales selling beauty products door to door. She attributes a lot of her success to the generous support of mentors in her life. She had a serious tenacity at a young age having to begin her cold calls from the white pages and networking through handing out business cards at the mall. At 17, she opened up her first storefront, and she has only grown and developed her skills since then.  But as a single mom of four for 14 years, her priorities and flexibility shifted, exponentially so when her son was born with nerve breakage in his brain. It was then she realized that the typical road to success is not easy to follow when real life and trauma pop up. She knew something had to change but it was very difficult to lose her identity and role in business as she knew it at the time. She found a way to cover the bills, have insurance, and be closer to her son on a daily basis through becoming a CNA. Later she was able to return to the business, but it was an important lesson to realize what had to shift in business to meet the needs of her son as a single mom.  Tammy was very aware of the reality of life for her son once services stopped when he reached the age of 21. Tammy’s number one priority was to help her son have quality of life each and every day, even when tragedy hit and he had to cope with a collapsed spine and surgery was not an option. She is eager to encourage moms of special needs kids because she knows you will never quit having to advocate for your kids needs. She wants you to have more grace on yourself so you don’t harbor negativity and can embrace the journey for what it is. In this episode, we cover: How Tammy got started as an entrepreneur as a teeenager How she was able to pivot in business a few times in order to meet the needs of kids as a single mom and special needs mom How having a community of support will help you remain strong as your child’s advocate for the whole journey  “Just because it’s going to be different doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad. Just because it’s not what it used to be doesn’t mean it’s not going to be beautiful. But it may not happen on the timeline you thought it was going to happen on and it may not happen in the season you thought it was going to happen in.”Where To Connect with Tammy Online: Website Facebook InstagramConnect with Mia Francis-Poulin! Find out how you can work with Mia at www.racreative.co Catch up with Mia on Instagram. Join the Mama, Build Your Empire Group on Facebook.

MEET THE GUEST: Networker, motivator, change-maker, Tammy Flynn is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who never stops. Since she started her career at the age of 15, she’s launched and run more than four businesses, including direct sales beauty products, a salon and spa, an events company, and most recently, The On-Air Advocate, which supports, empowers and educates caregivers. A consummate networker, Tammy unites people while inspiring them to share their time, talent and energy with the community. A committed volunteer, she has tirelessly raised more than $500,000 for the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Make a Wish® Foundation. Tammy Flynn’s organizational talents, energy, and resourcefulness have brought recognition from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the State of Wisconsin, radio station 99WMYX, the County of Waukesha, City of New Berlin and the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce. Tammy comes a line of female entrepreneurs dating back to her grandmother and her mother.  At the young age of 15, Tammy entered the world of business through cosmetic sales selling beauty products door to door. She attributes a lot of her success to the generous support of mentors in her life. She had a serious tenacity at a young age having to begin her cold calls from the white pages and networking through handing out business cards at the mall. At 17, she opened up her first storefront, and she has only grown and developed her skills since then. But as a single mom of four for 14 years, her priorities and flexibility shifted, exponentially so when her son was born with nerve breakage in his brain. It was then she realized that the typical road to success is not easy to follow when real life and trauma pop up. She knew something had to change but it was very difficult to lose her identity and role in business as she knew it at the time. She found a way to cover the bills, have insurance, and be closer to her son on a daily basis through becoming a CNA. Later she was able to return to the business, but it was an important lesson to realize what had to shift in business to meet the needs of her son as a single mom. Tammy was very aware of the reality of life for her son once services stopped when he reached the age of 21. Tammy’s number one priority was to help her son have quality of life each and every day, even when tragedy hit and he had to cope with a collapsed spine and surgery was not an option. She is eager to encourage moms of special needs kids because she knows you will never quit having to advocate for your kids needs. She wants you to have more grace on yourself so you don’t harbor negativity and can embrace the journey for what it is. In this episode, we cover: <ul><li>How Tammy got started as an entrepreneur as a teeenager</li> <li>How she was able to pivot in business a few times in order to meet the needs of kids as a single mom and special needs mom</li> <li>How having a community of support will help you remain strong as your child’s advocate for the whole journey</li> </ul> “Just because it’s going to be different doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad. Just because it’s not what it used to be doesn’t mean it’s not going to be beautiful. But it may not happen on the timeline you thought it was going to happen on and it may not happen in the season you thought it was going to happen in.”Where To Connect with Tammy Online: <ul><li><a href="http://www.onairadvocate.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OnAirAdvocate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.instagram.com/theonairadvocate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li></ul>Connect with Mia Francis-Poulin! <ol><li>Find out how you can work with Mia at <a href="http://www.racreative.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.racreative.co</a></li> <li>Catch up with Mia on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mia_the_marketer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.</li> <li>Join the Mama, Build Your Empire Group on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/mamabuildyourempire/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook.</a></li></ol>

[MBYE 31] Tammy Flynn on Teenage Entrepreneurship, Pivoting to Stay Available to Support Special Needs, and The Importance of Gathering Your Community

I sit down with Tammy Flynn, host and producer of the On Air AdvocateLike the " The On Air Advocate"" Facebook page and follow them on twitter @onairadvocate and instagram @theonairadvocate visit their website“Like” the Real Talk: All Things Inclusion Facebook Page!Subscribe to my Youtube channel: Devon WietersLearn more about the podcast at www.onairadvocate.com https://realtalkpodcastonline.wordpress.com/Support this podcast and our mission to make the world more inclusive one episode at a time at https://anchor.fm/real-talk-the-podcast/support--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelwithit/message

I sit down with Tammy Flynn, host and producer of the On Air Advocate Like the " The On Air Advocate"" Facebook page and follow them on twitter @onairadvocate and instagram @theonairadvocate visit their website “Like” the Real Talk: All Things Inclusion Facebook Page! Subscribe to my Youtube channel: Devon Wieters Learn more about the podcast at <a href="http://www.onairadvocate.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.onairadvocate.com</a> <a href="https://realtalkpodcastonline.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://realtalkpodcastonline.wordpress.com/</a> Support this podcast and our mission to make the world more inclusive one episode at a time at <a href="https://anchor.fm/real-talk-the-podcast/support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/real-talk-the-podcast/support</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelwithit/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelwithit/message</a>

My interview with Tammy Flynn