Thirty years ago, my dad took me aside and explained a small fact to me. “You are adopted, and here is the paperwork to prove it. You are at an age where I think this is something that you should know.” A couple of years before that, my brother and I made a wholly disturbing…
Author: David's Father
Medications
Every night we have difficulty getting him to take his medications. If he isn’t pouring water all over everything, he is dropping his medicine on the floor. He gets distracted and has to cuddle the animals during medicine time. So we have to hold onto him and drop the pills in his mouth. Then rub…
I was just playing around…
When you live in an old home, you worry about fire in the rights hands, let alone in the hands of a child with mental illness. Today we discovered this when we went into our guest bedroom/office. Do I think he was trying to burn down the house? No. What he was trying to do,…