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Don’t second guess our decision about our son

We don’t need you to second guess our decisions about our sons care. We know his conditions better than just about anyone, including his medical team. Until you have lived in our home with him, experienced his violent temper, and manic behaviors, you can’t tell us that we are wrong to embark on the path that we are traveling. Do I wish things were different? Hell yes! No amount of wishing will make it so. We don’t need you to second guess our decision. We can do that on our own. Want to know what you can do to help? Talk to people in the mental health community. Offer to help them with a meal. Offer to run errands for them, or spend time visiting so that they can feel like humanity hasn’t disappeared. Offer to take their kids that don’t have mental illnesses or special needs out for a

Move date confirmed

On January 16th, mom and I will be moving our son to a facility 500 miles from home. During this process we have more questions than we have answers. What happens next year if this new facility decides they are no longer appropriate for David? It took a long time to get David comfortable with the teaching staff, shouldn’t we have an IEP meeting with the new school prior to placement so that the new school can be made aware of what works and doesn’t work with him? Will he miss us, as much as we miss him? When can he move back to his home state? Who decides that he is stable enough for that to happen? What a way to ring in the new year! Related articles A win, no matter how you look at it (whynotfathers.com) Bed Available! (whynotfathers.com) tentative move date scheduled for David (whynotfathers.com) A

tentative move date scheduled for David

We received notice today that we can move David on the 9th. That doesn’t work for our family, as we have other obligations for our children. So we asked for the 16th of January. We will know New Year’s Eve if that will work or not. Sad to think about moving him 500 miles. Pray that we are doing the correct thing. The right thing. And that David will benefit from this. Tweet #fighting4answrs