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The Other Side

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Well, things have been good here the past few days.  Rye seems to be accepting the fate of the boy from our community and life goes on.
We visited the pdoc yesterday.  We always enjoy seeing him.  We need new blood work but that’s really it.  He also gave Rye a prescription for Klonopin to take [...]

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Patience Is A Virtue

Sunday, March 13, 2011

One I am a bit short on today, but a virtue nonetheless.
If Rye were little again, and cute and squishy again, and well, smaller than me again, this would be him today.  Because today we are experiencing the oh-so-predictable pre-trip meltdown over here.
You see, tomorrow we (Rye and I) leave on a trip.  To a [...]

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Explosive Children, Bipolar Children on Oprah

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The 7 year old who tried to kill his mom.
I’ll admit, because we do not watch much television I had no idea this show was on until I read about it on the internet.   And my first thought when I saw that the show was coming on was, What happened to HIPPA and Children’s Right [...]

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Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Yes, we are officially homeschooling again.
And now we’ll need a few days to decompress from the ‘heightened state of awareness’ lifestyle we’ve become accustomed to living.
Because when you are a special needs child or the parent of a special needs child and you are dealing with lower functioning public schools [of which there are way [...]

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Absence Note To School

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dear Mismanaged and Underfunded Public Middle School,
Please excuse Rye’s absence from school yesterday.  Due to the fact that you insist on mainstreaming bipolar children and refuse to acknowledge children with emotional disabilities as being worthy of any significant amount of additional assistance in the public school setting, Rye is now completely stressed by your school [...]

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Happenings…

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Things are clicking along here.
The good news is that the home life is good, Rye is doing well at home and has *so far* [I have a feeling this is about to change] what is probably his best school attendance ever.  He has only missed a couple of days so far this year and for [...]

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Shades Of Stability

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

So, it dawned on me yesterday when re-reading my post that perhaps I should elaborate on what I mean when I say that Rye is stable.
After all, what is ’stability’?
I’ll be honest,  I don’t know.  I mean, what is stability to others?  I don’t know.  We are learning as we go over here and all [...]

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So Long Klonopin

Friday, April 16, 2010

A month or two back the psychiatrist gave Rye klonopin (clonazepam) as a PRN (as needed) med for anxiety.
At he time Rye was in public school and we were going through the whole teacher attack incident (the teacher attacked Rye, not visa-versa) and Rye was extremely anxious.  It seemed he really needed something to chill [...]

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My Flesh!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

We had the funniest thing happen here last night.
It involved Rye having a very surface level cut, the concept of ripping flesh, and the anticipation of his leg falling off.  And honestly, I have not laughed that hard in eons.  I actually wet my pants because I could not stop laughing.   Literally, I could barely [...]

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Bipolar, Seizures, Bipolar, Seizures

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Which is it??  Or is it both??
This is where we are again.  Rye had an incident yesterday where out of nowhere he spent about 3 minutes blurting out expletives non-stop.   I mean non-stop.  It is so weird when he does that.  You can’t believe how fast he can rattle them off.  We were in the [...]

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Massage, Anxiety And Mood

Monday, February 22, 2010

So, when 2010 began Don and I agreed that as a part of Rye’s mood management routine here at the house we would incorporate regular massage to help him relax and regulate his anxiety and overall mood.  Don and I are both big fans of and believers in massage and between us use massage weekly [...]

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