We are happy to have him home and hopeful that he is stable. We have had several extended, off-grounds visits this past week so we have been able to get a pretty good gauge of his mood. He is pleasant and mellow, infact a little too mellow at times (trying not to fall asleep in the afternoons). He is also having some nausea which we hope will pass. I will give it a few days and then see if changes need to be made.
The good news is that he went into psychiatric hospital on four medications and came out on three. Serequel was discontinued. Clonidine was traded for Tennex and his geodone and trilleptal were both raised slightly and the dosing was spread out to four doses rather than two.
The psychiatrist felt that Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified should be added to his diagnosis after talking to him and observing his interactions with peers. We have also felt that this diagnosis fit difficult child but the neuropsychologist we had done last November noted speech and language delays and executive function problems but did not indicate Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). I think this may have been because difficult child is often fairly appropriate with adults but has awful social skills amoung his peers. At any rate, we will seek an additional evaluation with a neuropsychologist if we can get insurance to go for it.
This week, I have an iep meeting to get difficult child back in school, we homeschooled last year. I am hoping they will assign at least a temporary one-to-one assistant due to difficult child's running incidents. Wish me luck!
Christy
The good news is that he went into psychiatric hospital on four medications and came out on three. Serequel was discontinued. Clonidine was traded for Tennex and his geodone and trilleptal were both raised slightly and the dosing was spread out to four doses rather than two.
The psychiatrist felt that Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)-not otherwise specified should be added to his diagnosis after talking to him and observing his interactions with peers. We have also felt that this diagnosis fit difficult child but the neuropsychologist we had done last November noted speech and language delays and executive function problems but did not indicate Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD). I think this may have been because difficult child is often fairly appropriate with adults but has awful social skills amoung his peers. At any rate, we will seek an additional evaluation with a neuropsychologist if we can get insurance to go for it.
This week, I have an iep meeting to get difficult child back in school, we homeschooled last year. I am hoping they will assign at least a temporary one-to-one assistant due to difficult child's running incidents. Wish me luck!
Christy
