Lefty Is Right

After You Fall

     Since last March, my daughter Lukah has started having terrible seizures.  We have been through many doctors and many hospitals to try to find an answer.  We even had a doctor coldly ask us when we were just going to give up.  Um, excuse me but never.  That's our child!  It breaks my heart to see this once athletic, lively girl reduced to being afraid to be in public for fear of having a seizure in front of people.  

     She has shown me more courage than I could ever have imagined and her strength is what gives her mother and I the ambition to keep striving for answers.  I truly believe that someday, this will all be a very bad memory and she will be flashing those huge dimples at me as often as she used to.  Here is a picture of her when she was little.

     See what I mean about those dimples.  She has been diagnosed with POTS syndrome.  Never heard of it?  That's okay, neither had we.  Nor have most doctors that we have come in contact with.  It stands for Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.  It basically is an extremely high jump in heart rate from lying to upright position that can cause fainting or even seizures.  

     So they think it is caused by that or really deep in the brain epilepsy.  It has taken almost a year and slogging through many internet forums to get ourselves to the correct doctors for this diagnosis.  If you want to read more about the disease and coping with it, my wife has started a blog detailing her journey as a parent dealing with a child affected by this.  http://lookingforlukah.com/   Now let me show you a picture of Lukah before the monster came after her.

     That is my little girl getting a kiss from me.  Lately, there has been too many times where I have had to move wires aside to kiss that same cheek.

     I want with everything in me to give her life back to her.  She hates it when we say this but I wish that the monster had went after me rather than her.  Thanks for listening and allowing me to educate.

AFTER YOU FALL

(for my sweet daughter Lukah)

There was a time

not so long ago

where our main worry

was if you had enough sunblock on.

You were so pretty

running around chasing your brother

as the wind blew your hair 

and the sun kissed your face.

I can actually hear your laughter

as you roll around in the grass

fighting with the dog 

over his coveted chew rope.

Somehow, some other force took over

ending those carefree days,

making you a prisoner of your own body,

robbing you of your youth.

There were so many calls

to rush to the school

that even when you are home

a ringing phone sinks my heart.

As a parent, I live in fear from this monster.

But I can’t imagine what you feel

when you drop and shake

and lose hours of your day.

Just know we won’t leave you.

We won’t give up on an answer.

As John Paul Jones exclaimed,

“I have not yet begun to fight!”

After you fall, we will be there

hopefully to catch you.

But sometimes its too late

and we have to just pick you back up.

Your strength gives me strength

and I’m amazed that you can still smile.

Remember, I will always be your dad

to help you after you fall.

Corey Case

2/4/14

Rapper S.C.

AND THE NEWEST HOT RAPPER FROM THE MEAN STREETS OF SOUTH SIDE CLINTON, ILLINOIS . . . SADIE CASE, A.K.A. THE RAPPER S.C.

She rose above her roots of tangling with gangs of squirrels and birds to be the best
4-legged rapper in the midwest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxsXsk6HeY

Credit the beat to printscreamrecords on youtube.

One Night in Paris

Here's our next 2014 Doritos Crash the Super Bowl video contest entry.  It has stop motion Dorito people. Andi came home from work to find all of this set up on the kitchen table and said she thought to herself "what is this lunatic up to now?"  Turn volume up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkJawVTd_Q

and a sepia toned one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeoyDpimRDI

She Just Said Not to "Eat" Them

These are our entries in the 2014 Doritos Superbowl Commercial contest.

1st Entry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4TCb1r_pg0

2nd Entry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXeD_QMmEA

I'm On Twitter

I'm on twitter now if anyone is still following me.  Probably will get back to the blog someday but for now, I'm enjoying just posting a random thought every now and then.

https://twitter.com/CCase69

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