Dear Dell,
Today is my father's birthday. He was born on Friday the 13th. If I was born on Friday the 13th I would be living in a rubber room. I am way too superstitious. I talked to my Dad this morning on the phone (we live 1200 miles apart currently) he was sitting on new furniture waiting for the repair man for his apartment building to come and install new baseboards.
This morning I put a roast in my electric roaster. I added 5 pounds of potatoes, 2 pounds of carrots, two onions and a 3 or 4 pound roast. I also added red wine...maybe too much red wine. We are about to see how much alcohol actually cooked off...Maybe I should make the kids some macaroni.
This afternoon we saw the developmental pediatrician for Lizzie and Gage. Lizzie is going to wean off one of her meds for OCD and onto another. We are also looking for some social skills training help for her. Her school seems to be doing nothing for us and I'm beginning to get really frustrated with them. We are getting a referral to a private agency. I would have preferred some help during school for her, but I don't think that is going to happen. Unfortunately she has a teacher who feels that if a kid isn't disrupting her class, they aren't at all on her radar. I'm not sure her teacher enjoys her job much. Just an observation.
We have been given a number for a new Dr for Gage. Our Dr is only allowed to prescribe certain medications. Next stop is a psychiatrist who can prescribe the anti psychotics Gage needs. We are weaning off the current anti psychotic he is on so that the next dr will be able to start fresh. Gage was bouncing off the walls, trying to escape the office, stomped on the Dr's foot, and ripped the paper on the table to shreds. This Dr feels the next step will probably be an inpatient stay to observe, get his medications right, and figure out which therapies he needs.
Hearing that your 4year old might be hospitalized for in patient mental health care makes you want to puke. While we knew that hospitalization may happen at some point, I never considered that it might be this soon.
I have a new microwave today, along with way more honey buns than we really need. Not that I NEED any honey buns at all, but you know, they were on sale :)
Ok, so going to continue to drink my wine spritzer (fancy way to say cheap club soda and cheap red wine mixed together) and then get drunk on beef roast.
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All I read was blah blah blah. Your getting drunk on my meat... lol
I am so glad you are back, I have miss you and just hang in there at least tonite you will have a nice buzz from your dinner...
That must have been a BIG crock pot! I told you the Fairy Crab Mother would bring you a microwave and she did!
Joking aside....
Ok so we talked about hospitalization before but what I wonder is: will the change in environment make a dif with how he reacts?Can they truely measure his condition? I know change really impacts little D. We even shy away from travel and when we have tried it seems worse the older he gets.
Kendra, I was thinking about that earlier today actually. How will they assess him accurately if he is out of his own environment (not that Im interested in inviting a team of dr's to live with me...). Also, what is he going to think? Can I be there at all? Mommy abandoned him? This is all kind of scary.
Mistika, Im glad to be back, and congrats on your little boy :)
Have a little more roast beef and stare at your new microwave for awhile.
I know when little D has been evaluated by specialists on their turf he is so distracted and stressed that he doesnt react the same as he would at school or home so I questioned the specialists. BUT they were able to see things that we we not focusing on. Who am I kidding it was weird having the specialist come to our home as well. Gage will be heading to school someday and thats a unfamiliar environment. This might be a good way to see how he is gonna react and start putting plans in motion to get him used to it. We have a early development program run by the state that enables special needs children to attend preschool as early as 3yrs to start working on issues, maybe thats something offered there?
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