The Hospital

It has been a very emotional week....

September 1st David had a very violent meltdown at Kohls where he was punching and biting me. His doctor said that if this behavior happened while we were out that I was suppose to take him immediately to Maryview Behavior Center. His meltdowns have been getting progressively worse and more violent so we drove immediately to Maryview. They admitted him last night and are keeping him for 5-7 days.

I know I made the right decision because I would do anything for David to help him feel normal. It was just so upsetting that I have to leave him there with strangers when he is already having abandonment issues with Dad deploying and then coming back, but has crazy work hours because he made chief. And then with his sister deciding to just move out and she hasn't seen or talked to him since July 8th. Dave's work let him stay home with me the following day because I was such an emotional wreck.

One good thing is that they have visiting hours every night from 6-7 and twice a day on the weekends. So we are taking every opportunity to visit with him. They are letting us stay until 7:30 because we are helping him get his shower and then we get to snuggle with him a bit afterwards.

They took David off all of his meds (adderall xr, abilify and regular adderall) to try giving him just risperdal. David had several meltdowns during the week and they had to inject him with a sedative. He finally took his riperdal Friday night at dinner. So I really hope this works.

I really look forward to visiting him today to see how the medicine is working. I called this morning to see how he was doing and they said that he was doing great and has been really calm. I hope this continues for the day.

Chaos...I hate chaos.....

Holy crap! So go to pick up David from school for his OT appt. and he is already upset. He got a papercut and then he wasn't allowed to play on the playground because he said that he got in trouble in resource class for something that he didn't do. He was very upset in the car on the way to OT and finally calmed down when we got there (thank goodness). So we get home from OT and he is wound up like a top. Finally got through his homework. Hubby brought home Arby's and then David wanted to play his Spongebob video game on his TV. Of course the batteries are dead  so I am trying to change the batteries and then hubby needed help finding some paperwork. Told hubby to wait because I had to get the SBSP game upstairs ASAP! Then I think David only played for about 10 minutes so he came back downstairs....Well, David is so curious about all of the files we are going through and asking tons of questions. The problem is that he ALWAYS says your name before he asks a question and you MUST at least say "what" or he will just continue saying your name.....yoi! I finally get him to sit down on the couch and watch Mythbusters in hopes to have a little quiet.

So older daughter is not feeling well and talking back about why she has to do the dishes if she doesn't feel well and starts shoving things while putting away the dishes and ends up breaking a plate. Of course David has to come running in to see what all the noise is about...luckily I was standing in the entrance way and was able to stop him before he stepped on anything. The trash is over-flowing because apparently nobody else has the ability to take it out other than me! Then David wants to move his play table from one room to another and I told him no which causes a minor meltdown that lasts about 10 minutes which has him running around screaming "mommy's not listening!" Well, I guess the time I just spent cleaning off his play table was for nothing because he decided that he was not going to play with the empty waterbottles on the table if it wasn't in the other room.

Glass cleaned up by hubby (thankfully), got David back to Mythbusters and got the trash taken out, when I get back inside the pup had just peed on the carpet! WTF! So I cleaned up the pee and put Natures Miracle on it and now David is running around again yelling through a waterbottle that he cut the end off of to make it into a megaphone. GREAT! Wonderful! Daughter doesn't have her reseach paper fixed because she says that MS Word won't indent....yikes...you are 17 and have written several papers by now and you can't remember how to indent citations....are you serious?!?!?!?! So rather than showing her I just fixed it and printed it.

David has just decided to take 2 of the empty waterbottles and cut the bottoms off, then took the jar of mixed nuts and put some in the one bottle and mash the other bottle on top and started shaking it making a ton of noise. Why is he not calming down by now. His adderall should have worn off and his abilify should have kicked in....what the heck is wrong!!!!!!

I think it is time for bed!

Emergency IEP Meeting

As I head in for Class Room Observation and then to an Emergency IEP Meeting I am making sure all of my i's are dotted and t's are crossed. I am pissed that they haven't implemented anything from my son's IEP from last year that is suppose to run through January 2010. I don't even think that the teacher read his IEP. Being an inclusion class teacher I feel that this is a necessary task before the school year starts.

A brief synopsis...My son was diagnosed with ADHD the previous school year and over the summer was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism. WOW it makes all the sense in the world. He has the same tendencies that my brother had.

So, I've spent the majority of the day reviewing his IEP and the disability student's rights packet.

It is hard when they continually say that they try to bring him back from a meltdown. Well my thought is why are they causing the meltdown in the first place. If they seem to know what triggers it why are they antagonizing him and causing the meltdown in the first place. Why not be proactive rather than reactive and then end up calling me to come and pick him up. They are damaging his self esteem.

I guess we will see what happens during my in class observation and the meeting in the afternoon.

More to follow tomorrow