As Winnie to Pooh says, at the beginning.
My wife Colleen was very sick the whole pregnancy. We had just graduated from university and moved to Ottawa. The climate change made use both constantly parched. We missing living by the sea in PEI. Colleen was sick with a cold for 3 weeks of each month and threw up all day everyday. Colleen lost weight for the first while and then was put on the gestational diabetes diet for the rest of the pregnancy. She gave birth 3 weeks early at Approximately 37 week, with everyone else in our Lamaze Class. Nurses said it was some weird moon / weather event They where giving birth in the hallway. However for use only Colleen's water broke on she did not go into labour. She was inducted 60 hours, left so long because the hospital was overwhelmed with new births. After being induced things moved so fast the epidural kicked just after Jewel was born.
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Jewel slept for the first two weeks of life, my wife worried about that, I said she premature and needs the rest and that we should be grateful for it. Little did I know the foreshadowing of that statement. Spoiler Alert! Jewel only slept 3 hours a day for the next 15 and half years!
Jewel had pretty normal development until she was 2.5. She was tested for having a large head, but I have a large head and thought nothing of it.
As we young and just started out in life we moved a lot in those years things on rental was better, cheaper, nicer, whatever a lot in those years. We moved when around 2.5 and she started to regress. He thought was was just the moved. She was cranky with the friend young couple we made friends with. Other people speak was starting it irritate her and she was starting her Catch Phrase....leave me alone....when shrunk at an crazy eye leave quickly. When we moved into the build she would interduce herself to people on the elevator, Saying I am Jewel I am 3 and his is Ashley and she is ....and so worth.
I took a transfer to Veterans Affairs Canada back in PEI to raise the kids back at home. Jewel had just turned 4. She cried for months she wanted to go back home...to Ottawa which is farness was her home. Sleep was getting worse and language less and less and repetitive and ritual behavior more and more. The lining up of toys, and only wanting to eat certain food and what the same Disney movies over and over. Spoiler Alert! Same movies everyday 25 years later. They do rotate in and out in 6 to 12 months time frames. I type it Robin hood, then King of Thieves and our to or order Return of Jafar ! With random Pothantus and Little Mermaid in the afternoon.
But we said it was just the move she would get over it. She did not, she started having seizures. Jewel's first seizure the night Princess Diane's death. I night before I was set the host my 10 high school reunion. Wow where we really that young!
My mom watched and Jewel the next night and we went and it quickly spread thought the evening, and everyone voiced there concern for Jewel. My Dad spent the eventing search the internet with Jewel's symptoms and so declared her Autistic to my wife. Colleen did not speak to him for weeks...lol.