I wish, my mom has trouble watching daughter #2 who only has ADHD. We live in the same house and my mom by the way was previously diagnosed as a bipolar schizophrenic with paranoid delusions and suicidal ideations. Yes that was the actual diagnosis, she's gotten, "functional" but now its more like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), she cleans like a million times a day and Eric is way too much for her.
I give you stay at home mom many many, cookie points cause I could not do that, I would go completely insane, I work for two doctors who are very understanding of my situation, seriously, there was one day I had all three kids with me at work, cause two girls had been sent home with lice and Eric had his EEG.
Last night we went to the movies, by the way Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay is hilarious, and easily a ridiculous distraction. Before the movie, getting tickets, Eric was climbing and falling from the desk, got the tickets, went inside, eric is dragging himself on the floor, in line to get popcorn, eric is running in circles an d dragging himself on the floor, i am just thinking, "Im going to have to wash that clothes", We go in for the movie, eris is running up and down the stairs, eric is running out of the theatre, during the movie eric is laughing, he understood the visual jokes of the movie, the inbred baby cyclops he found hysterical. Eric was talking so loud, he refused to sit down was going between me, my mom and her boyfriend, he has to pee four times, I mean, all I wanted to do was watch the movie.
Going anywhere is a constant, all about eric show all the time, trying to keep him safe, keep him from running into the street, running away, screaming incomprehendable rantings only he understands, keeping breakdowns to a minimum. Its too hard to go out, and Ive become omewhat anti-social for it, I dont want to go out, I dont want to meet new people, I more than half the time just want to stay home cause I can semi-control the issues there. I have my own issues with just pain, see I have congenital fusion at c2-c3 level and a nerve hardening from c3-c4, and thats just my neck. It takes effort to get up, and not cry or not crack my neck a thousand times. In my lower back I have at my tailbone level I have an overgrowth and the covering of the disc is bulging, so Im almost always in pain. Im not depressed, Im aggravated, cause I hurt and going out with Eric doesnt give me time to hurt. You know what I wouldnt give to get a massage.
As a matter of fact, I propose for mothers day, we all get massages. One hour full body massages, will do you better than any flowers that will die, better than any candy that will make you gain weight, or any dinner which costs too much time, and energy, and unless diamonds are involved, a massage is just better.I want a massage.