mrscatinthehat
Seussical
it confirmed most of what we already knew. Some of the things I didn't like though.
First while he was in with the education specialist we were talking to the Psychiatrist. She was very nice. Listened to us. Told us how impressed she was with how much we are trying to take care of these things.
Of course she asked us what we hoped to accomplish. I told her what we wanted was a miracle but since we knew that wasn't going to happen we wanted to know what path to go on with him. She liked that. We unburdened ourselves once more on his behaviors etc.
Then when difficult child got done with the education person he talked to the Dr we had been. Then he talked with her and the Staff Dr. I really love the University Hospital setting. You get way more care there.
Then his whole evaluation team met including the person that had met with him on the 3rd(the Neuro psychiatric). Then I got to go and get their initial results.
I was/am pretty tensed up about it. He has Personality change due to alcohol and lead exposure (alcohol was from when his bio mom was pregnant). Then he has Impulse Control Disorder not otherwise specified (duh). They also discovered he is borderline intellectual funtioning. You add all that up together and you get a big ugh.
The recommended path - get the medications tweaked (they had some suggestions), intesive therapy of a sort he will comprehend and digest (good luck). The other thing he said that was controvesial but could be looked at was reducing his testosterone levels. Not sure really how I feel about that what with the risks etc. A lot of thought would have to go into that one.
The other thing is they said we should plan now on him going to an adult facility and getting the ball rolling on that because he will most probably not be able to be out by the time he is 18. That would be too big of a risk.
So in the last week we have been told both of the difficult children are probably going to have to have guardians. Yippee!!!!
So now I have new things to look up and new medications to educate myself on so when this is all discussed I can know which way I think best to start.
Onward and upward.
Beth
First while he was in with the education specialist we were talking to the Psychiatrist. She was very nice. Listened to us. Told us how impressed she was with how much we are trying to take care of these things.
Of course she asked us what we hoped to accomplish. I told her what we wanted was a miracle but since we knew that wasn't going to happen we wanted to know what path to go on with him. She liked that. We unburdened ourselves once more on his behaviors etc.
Then when difficult child got done with the education person he talked to the Dr we had been. Then he talked with her and the Staff Dr. I really love the University Hospital setting. You get way more care there.
Then his whole evaluation team met including the person that had met with him on the 3rd(the Neuro psychiatric). Then I got to go and get their initial results.
I was/am pretty tensed up about it. He has Personality change due to alcohol and lead exposure (alcohol was from when his bio mom was pregnant). Then he has Impulse Control Disorder not otherwise specified (duh). They also discovered he is borderline intellectual funtioning. You add all that up together and you get a big ugh.
The recommended path - get the medications tweaked (they had some suggestions), intesive therapy of a sort he will comprehend and digest (good luck). The other thing he said that was controvesial but could be looked at was reducing his testosterone levels. Not sure really how I feel about that what with the risks etc. A lot of thought would have to go into that one.
The other thing is they said we should plan now on him going to an adult facility and getting the ball rolling on that because he will most probably not be able to be out by the time he is 18. That would be too big of a risk.
So in the last week we have been told both of the difficult children are probably going to have to have guardians. Yippee!!!!
So now I have new things to look up and new medications to educate myself on so when this is all discussed I can know which way I think best to start.
Onward and upward.
Beth