Author Archives: stuckinmybra

This is a writing in progress subject to additions, edits, and updates. I welcome comments and inquiries. School refusal is a term used to describe the signs of anxiety a school-aged child has and their refusal to attend school. It is also called school avoidance or school phobia. School refusal can be seen in differentContinue reading “School Refusal⚕️”

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT. GRIN AND BEAR IT. IT IS WHAT IT IS. These phrases have come up time and again over the last many years in conversations with my teenagers. The truth is that these phrases do not commonly come into my own mind. I wasn’t raised that way. They aren’t drilledContinue reading “Maybe Peace Is The Devil’s Aim⚕️”

Last night I watched the movie CODA for the third time. The familial conflicts and the hurt and distrustful feelings expressed throughout cut close to the bone. Really close. Every time I watch a movie or a show like CODA I can relate and I find myself longing to step inside their world to expandContinue reading “Deaf Heart💜”

Today Rudy turns 52 and this is his year in review. It’s a birthday gift for my fool. Last year around this time Rudy stepped up and supported our Deaf family and friends to organize Solid Ground Denver, which started out of sheer necessity to support a small group of Deaf and Disabled students whoContinue reading “Rudy’Z #52 Year in Review”

Dear Jared Polis, https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/highest-vote-getter-from-november-election-resigns-from-hayden-school-board/ “My ability to focus as a father on making sure that my son is safe and not being so angry with the administration, principal and the superintendent because of their lack of empathy and concern for his well-being,” Kleckler told Steamboat Pilot & Today on Tuesday, Feb. 8. “I felt likeContinue reading “Steamboat Springs”

Dear Jared Polis, Please do check out this response from Children’s Hospital Colorado to the state of emergency for the children in our state of Colorado. Our mental health care system is killing children right now. Of course you know that already. I hope the new hospital mental health chief will be invited to payContinue reading “Children’s Hospital”

Dear Phil Weiser, Jared Polis and Colorado Access Board member Carl Clark MD and colleagues, We would like to meet with you about how Colorado can devise a Corrective Action Plan to correct our failure to provide medically necessary services for children who are Medicaid members like we are. Since August 2021 we have personallyContinue reading “Colorado Kids”

I took this photo of myself voicelessly whistling. Even though I am a whistleblower, I cannot actually whistle. My family can attest to this fact. The letter below is what we wrote today to Carl Clark, the current CEO of Mental Health Center of Denver as a follow up to a previous letter that IContinue reading ““Not Really Suicidal””

Dear Colorado Governor Jared Polis, https://stuckinmybra.com/2019/12/08/maxs-poem-goodbye/ This is a poem written a few years ago by our child when they were feeling tired of struggling. Our child was 16 at that time. They were asked to speak up about their experience in the behavioral healthcare system by the Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard ofContinue reading “Colorado Is Not Safe”