Tag Archives: traumatic brain injury

the greatest treasure

David turned thirteen years old last Tuesday.  On July 28th, will be 11 years since his adoption was finalized.  How quickly the time goes. For David’s birthday, we went out to the facility he lives in to visit him.  Most of the family went.  We arrived late Monday, spent Tuesday, Wednesday and part of Thursday visiting David. He wasn’t with us all of the time, just in 2 or 3 hour spurts.  It was good to see him.  He has grown so tall. The hard part wasn’t just in seeing him, it was the fear.  I could sense it in his siblings, though they all did their best to hide it.  I know Mom, I and Aunt all felt that fear. Before we even arrived at the facility we had a plan in place to lock up all of our technology while David was with us. Nothing like giving him

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a setup for failure?

There hasn’t been much to report in regards to David.  He has been doing well, and by all reports is working his program.  Yesterday we had an IEP for him in the morning, and then his monthly treatment plan meeting in the afternoon.  At the second meeting, David indicated that he had reached the next level in his program, Bronze III.  Which means he has been doing really well. Then he said, “I have a feeling I will be dropping a level soon.” Today I got a call.  Not that he has been dropped a level, but that he is on an aggression plan. Evidently he hit his primary. A toy went missing, and David admitted taking it. He had his room stripped of everything except his bed, and his bedding. He wanted to file a grievance, and when he wasn’t able to immediately do so, he got upset.  Staff

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Mark 1:11

I would say this applies to each of my kids.  But David, has needs beyond what our other kids do. Reports for David have been great thus far at the new facility.  Does this mean that he is cured? No. Do I expect a cure? No. What I expect is for professionals to work with our son at the level that he needs, and right now, that is what the new facility is doing.  They hold him accountable for his actions, what he says, how he eats, everything.  The other really good thing, is the constant communication.  I hear from staff no less than twice a week.  His primary support person calls, his therapist calls, we have an IEP meeting coming up on Wednesday, which will be the second one, and we have a monthly staffing meeting regarding David.  In all meetings, David is included. At this point, I am

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