Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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In Sickness and in Health

When my bride and I got married, that was a part of our vows.  As I am sure it was for most of our readers. It seems to me that when we have children there is an implied vow “in sickness and in health”. I don’t know of any parent who wouldn’t gladly switch places with their child who has a life threatening illness. In the last weeks before we placed David, I heard a lot about how he was affecting my health.  And it is true, he was having a major impact on my health.  You see, I have a couple of different illnesses; illnesses that react in a negative fashion when confronted with Stress. If I could somehow fix David by giving every ounce of good health that I had, I would do so.  In a heartbeat.  No question about it. However.  When he started to drain the

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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