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Stormy Lake Weather

We had a storm on the lake this week.  Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm watch, that kind of thing. I don’t know if it is the weather, the fact that I am at a conference, or what, but David has been in full form. A storm of a different kind. Facebook.  If you are on the friends’ list of anyone in the family, he likely sent you a facebook request.  David is not allowed technology/Internet access.  David has a history of threatening to kill people via facebook.  Typically he does this via hacking into accounts of his siblings.  Please let us know if he says anything to you. Wednesday. David left his established area.  He went outside of the boundaries established for him.  When mom got home from looking for him with the intention of calling the police and reporting him as a run away he was home.  Later, a local

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Wrap Around Services Explained

Wrap around services means we work with social services and the different agencies in our region. since we are between two major cities in our state, we go one direction for some services, and the other direction for the rest. It gets very confusing trying to get all of the different agencies to communicate with each other.   I’ll build a glossary of terms, in the coming weeks.   As a parent of a kid with mental illness, I sometimes take for granted that everyone knows what I am talking about. I imagine that it is like listening to a race car driver talk about turns, wedges and drifts, he may know what he is talking about, and his team knows what he means but no one else does.  That is an assumption on my part that I will work to correct.   The reason that wrap around services is

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Can I say that I am a little bit angry?

We picked up David today from the mental health unit. We were given two new prescriptions for him. We traveled home.  I dropped the scripts off at the local pharmacy. I asked to be notified if the insurance company gives them any trouble filling the prescription. An hour later the pharmacy called.  Insurance needs preauthorization.  I asked how long that would take. Three or four days. So I called the hospital.  Doctor has left for the day. Staff at the hospital said that they would get in touch with the doctor and see what we are supposed to do. We are supposed to come off the new dose of the one medicine, go back to our old dose of that medicine until we get the authorization from the insurance company for the new medicine. Yeah, because the human body is a yo-yo that likes this type of medication change.  Given

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