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Category Archives: Progress

Get Your Joy Back Book Giveaway

This book, has helped me through the early part of my son’s return from a psychiatric facility. I have posted about it before. 🙂 Here. Fixed the giveaway form loader. Tweet #fighting4answrs

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progress of sorts

David has been home for most of 10 days. Has it been perfect? No. Do I expect perfection? No. I am proud of the changes that I am seeing in him. Does he still have mental health issues? Yes.  He is not cured.  Not by any means. For now, I will take it. We are still struggling with getting therapists and psych teams set up.  Since he has been in facility for more than 2 years, he is considered a new patient by his last psychiatrist.  As a result, it will be April before we can get in and see her.  I am begging for a spot on the call list.  You know, the list that they can call if an opening happens because of a cancellation. Playing phone tag with mentoring. 🙂  At least that is on the schedule. As far as medicaid is concerned, no news.  Since the

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Tags: #getyourjoyback, autism, bipolar, mental health, parenting, prtf, reactive attachment disorder ·

Our Favorite Special Ed Teacher

Today’s post is about our favorite special education teacher.  Yes. I know what you are thinking.. “Again?  What did this person do now?” Actually, it isn’t what you think. This teacher has moved to a new district, and while I am happy that the teacher is no longer working with my children, and hasn’t been for a few years actually, I do have knowledge of their work through my bride. So let me say this.  This post is not about complaint. Rather, I am proud of what this teacher has accomplished this year.  This teacher is in a work environment where they can get the support that they need to excel at being the kind of special education teacher I think that they can be.  And I think that they will be the kind of teacher that they hoped to be when they first started out to become an educator. The kind

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