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Tag: Tourette’s Syndrome

  • Praise for the NHS

    We’re all very healthy and haven’t had much need for the NHS since we moved here but the school asked us at the end of last year to organise an appointment for Daniel to discuss his autism and Tourette’s syndrome. It was something I’d been thinking about doing at some point but hadn’t got around to…

  • Earthquake strengthening, Tourette's and Team Work

    I snapped a photograph of this building in central Auckland last week because not only does it look beautiful, but I think it has the most effective earthquake strengthening I’ve seen yet. That facade is never falling off! The paediatrician who saw Daniel a couple of weeks ago phoned me this week. She wanted to…

  • Unique and eccentric = good

    Daniel is better this week. The tics are still there but less pronounced and with longer periods of relaxation between them. I told him late last week that it was absolutely fine for him to have his tics and that he could do them as often as he wanted at home and I think this…

  • Tourette’s Syndrome

    It has been a tough week. We suspect Daniel has Tourette’s syndrome. He’s always had a tic – involuntary movement – of some sort, and over time, it has changed. But the tic has never really been a problem until this week when it became much more vocal and almost constant. The vocal aspect consists…