Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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what is this? an mp3 player?

Received a phone call tonight from the residential facility where David is. Seems he had an mp3 player.  The staff was pretty sure that it belonged to the cottage, but David can tell a pretty convincing lie. David evidently told the staff that we had given it to him. Nope! So they called and asked. David spent most of a week in the psychiatric unit before he went there, he didn’t have an mp3 player there. They did catalog all of his stuff when he first arrived in the residential facility, so I am not sure why they wouldn’t have checked that listing.  Like we told them, one of David’s triggers is electronic devices. So now he has consequences. Related articles 20 Euros and a mp3 Player (whynotfathers.com) stealing from school (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

remember the little things…

Now I could wax poetic about remembering the little things… But. With David gone, we remember the little idiosyncrasies that make him who he is.  So I have to send a message to staff every time I remember something.  How long before they get tired of hearing from me? Today, we discovered David is on a computer.  🙂 Don’t ask how we know, I won’t tell.  So I sent a note to staff letting them know that David is good at hacking facebook, and has been known to threaten people via facebook. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of good things about David, but there are also things that can bring him or others harm.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

humbled by the number of people

I am humbled by the number of people who are reading my blog.  I didn’t think that our life was interesting. I dropped some stuff off for David today.  He saw us while he was walking and even pointed at the van as if to say “hey, that looks like our van”.  But by the time I got to where he was, he had disappeared.  Not sure what that was about. Back to yesterday when we admitted him to the facility. I think that the hardest part of the whole thing was the complete lack of affect.  He was interested in two things.  Food and bed. That said, he did have a good first night there. In honesty, I wonder how long it will take for me to sleep at night instead of during the daytime? Ah well, thank you everyone for the positive comments, the prayers and even the

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