>A prayer from a parent for their son.
God,
Even when he is having a bad day, we still love him, that is never in question. He exasperates us, makes us crazy sometimes, but we love him. He is our son, and important in our lives. We will take what You have given him and say thank you. THANK YOU. Oh, and God, if you are hearing this… please let tomorrow be a good day.
~ Amen
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>No word yet from the Dr, regarding M’s med wash. All in due time.
It is frustrating, M is regressing emotionally. Sometimes it is like having a three year old in the house again. This past weekend he wet his pants a couple of times. We were at home, and have two bathrooms. The school special ed teacher noticed it too, after I talked about it in our communication notebook. A communication notebook is just a notebook that we write daily concerns about M in. The special ed teacher writes her concerns about the day, as well as any behaviors that she saw.
The other thing is he asked my wife and I to break his arm. Not sure what that is about. Life with M has been difficult at home. Some say he acts that way at home because he knows we will love him anyway.
Having M in the home is have an affect on our other four children.
We re-certified for SNAP (food stamps) today. I was told that I need to be actively seeking work. It doesn’t matter that I am regularly being called to the school to care for M, or taking him or one of the other four kids to doctor appointments. All that matters to them is that I be working. My wife could stay home, but not me.
I don’t understand why it is o.k. for moms to give up their career for their children and be stay-at-home moms, but not dads. I didn’t do it willingly, but saw a need and since I owned my own business at the time, I was the logical choice for filling the role. We have since closed the business.
More soon. It will get better. I don’t want to believe that it could get worse, so will go with it will get better. 🙂
Tweet #fighting4answrs>Met with the psychiatrist. some of the issues that M has might be related to the combination of meds that he is on. We are changing his meds. Wholesale change in meds. We are going to hospitalize him as soon as a bed opens up and he will come off all of his current meds. (called a med wash) then we will start him on new meds, beginning with a med for the bipolar disorder and working out from there with the bipolar disorder as the base diagnosis and beginning point for treatment.
As the doctor says, we won’t cure him, but we can help him be better, and then, in time, he can learn to control some of his behaviors. Every time she looks at the med list from our previous psychiatrist, she just shakes her head…
When they pull him off the meds, he will be in the hospital as it happens, we are the only ones who know for sure what he is like without his meds.
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