Monday, September 6, 2010

Adjustments

I spoke with the doc and they said that his attention was extremely short so we decided to add back the adderall xr but only 10mg to help him focus in school. The doc also said that he might be able to come home Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday's afternoon visit was pretty great until David started getting frustrated and punching himself in the head and stomach. So I spoke with the doc about it since we are adding back some adderall and our concern about it adding to the aggression he was displaying with the frustration so we decided to up his risperdal to 1mg. The rest of the visit went well. As we were waiting to leave David hugged me and looking up at me and said "Mommy, I miss you a lot...Can you talk to them and see if you can stay all day?" There was definitly no holding back tears there, the flood gates released and I held him so close and told him that everything would be okay and that as long as he listened he would get to come home soon.

Since they increased the risperdal they needed to give it to him a little later so he wasn't asleep by 7:30. That posed a problem when it was time to get dressed after his shower. He started fighting over the socks he was going to wear and it took us a bit to get him to put them on right (they only have hospital grippy socks in size large so they are big for the kids). He was very aggitated after that and when we took him for snack they reminded him that he had to do his chore (sweeping the floor) today. Well, that set him off and he was very defiant. He didn't have a meltdown, but would not do it. Again we were at a time where the risperdal was worn off from the previous day and the new dosage hadn't kicked in yet. So we will find out today how things went after we left last night. It was difficult leaving him so upset.

Today being Labor Day it is treated like a weekend at the hospital and we get 2 visitations again. I look forward to seeing how David is doing on the increased risperdal and the added adderall xr.

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