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Reality Bites

Reality Bites – David is doing well. I get that. I get that he can’t stay where he is forever. I understand. In all likelihood, David will be home by Christmas. Experience tells us that, we we can expect 6 weeks of honeymoon before things turn negative. That will bring us to the first of February. When he is discharged he will be put on a waiting list for services that were available a year ago. Services will be cut from ten hours to three hours a week because of budget cuts in the state of North Dakota. So he gets discharged at Christmas, with luck, and a lot of prayer we can get through most of February. Then we can look forward to 6 more weeks before support kicks in. At that point, we will be only receiving a bare minimum of supports for him, not including psychiatric and

Well Meaning Social Workers and Good News

It has been a long day. Because of a well meaning social worker who chose not to understand our situation, we had a Sheriff Deputy transport our son 100 miles to safe bed. Safe bed is just that, a safe place for him to be, to rest, to get himself under control. There is no reason that I could not have transported David today, but such is life. On the plus side, our care coordinator, who also happens to be a social worker, rocks. I can’t say enough good things about this person and the work they do on David’s behalf. Our family would be even more lost than we already are without this person in our corner. Today, when the transport was rescheduled outside of our control, the care coordinator went to bat and defended our family. Today we also received some wonderful news. On Monday afternoon, David will

Escalating behaviors

Yesterday afternoon about 1:00 pm, I was at David’s school to drop off his medications for next week. School is 60 miles from home. While there, the assistant principal pulled me aside to talk to me about David’s escalating behaviors at school. At the time he was serving in school suspension for behaviors relating to an incident in physical education. We pulled David into the office to talk about the last couple of days of behavior, and he claimed that nearly everyone who accused him of something was lying, to include teachers and a few staff. David was then returned to in school suspension where upon he refused to listen and follow the rule of one desk interval between students. (so that there was at least a desk separating each student serving in school suspension.) At this point the decision was made to send David home on out of school