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difficult child 2 in psychiatric hospital and they are talking out of home placement
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 460457" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>Good points. Hadn't thought of telling the nurse about PBJ's as undercutting. He has lots of sensory issues including an acute sense of smell and taste and a hearing loss that makes noisy places stressful. Going to the cafeteria won't be the pleasant experience he thinks it will be and there are pretty much no more choices there than on the unit. When he's been hospitalized before for 5 days or more he really didn't eat anything but yogurt and bread - neither of which is available at this hospital's cafeteria. He lost about 10 pounds that time. But you're right of course - catering to him on the unit doesn't keep pressure on him to cooperate. I think I'll call them this morning and tell them to skip the PBJ's and the reason why.</p><p></p><p>I am actually desperate to have him out of our home, even for a few weeks. But it will likely be financially devastating to us to make that happen as the local agencies really have no $$ for out of home placement and families like ours are saddled with child support payments or reimbursement of most of the costs even if it means we have to pay off the costs in installments. If we had that $$ we would be placing him ourselves in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC). </p><p></p><p>That's why I need to just stay in the moment and not assume the worst case scenario of placement by court order with us paying the bill. Somehow it will all work out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 460457, member: 11920"] Good points. Hadn't thought of telling the nurse about PBJ's as undercutting. He has lots of sensory issues including an acute sense of smell and taste and a hearing loss that makes noisy places stressful. Going to the cafeteria won't be the pleasant experience he thinks it will be and there are pretty much no more choices there than on the unit. When he's been hospitalized before for 5 days or more he really didn't eat anything but yogurt and bread - neither of which is available at this hospital's cafeteria. He lost about 10 pounds that time. But you're right of course - catering to him on the unit doesn't keep pressure on him to cooperate. I think I'll call them this morning and tell them to skip the PBJ's and the reason why. I am actually desperate to have him out of our home, even for a few weeks. But it will likely be financially devastating to us to make that happen as the local agencies really have no $$ for out of home placement and families like ours are saddled with child support payments or reimbursement of most of the costs even if it means we have to pay off the costs in installments. If we had that $$ we would be placing him ourselves in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC). That's why I need to just stay in the moment and not assume the worst case scenario of placement by court order with us paying the bill. Somehow it will all work out. [/QUOTE]
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