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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 620344" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>I wish that I, too, had a success story. My difficult child is 28-years-old now and still struggling. A little over a year ago, we learned that our difficult child had started shooting up heroin. We staged an intervention and sent her to a highly regarded dual diagnosis center in south Florida. She spent three months there and then went to a sober house. She left the sober house last summer and found a full time job to support herself. She did very well until Christmas. She relapsed shortly after she went back after spending a week with us for Christmas. We just found out that she had started drinking again. I already suspected but I found out for sure when she lost her job.</p><p></p><p>My hope is that she goes back into treatment. We will see. My easy child is doing great. She is 25-years-old and is in her third year of teaching high school math. The students and administration love her. I know that because one of my best friends is an assistant principal at her school and is always telling me what a great job easy child is doing.</p><p></p><p>My husband never got another job in the corporate world after the company he was working for went under during the recession. After spending two years looking for a job in the corporate world and watching the 30-year-old interviewer's face fall when he walked through with his white hair, he knew that no one in the high tech world was going to hire someone in his late fifties. So he took up an new career . . . teaching! He went through a special program for helping people transition from the corporate world into education and got his teaching certificate. He even had to student teach. After working part time at my school as a math teacher, he was hired full time and has been at my school for three years. We even had side-by-side trailers for a while. </p><p></p><p>I plan to teach for another two years and then retire from my full time face-to-face school and teach part time for an online school. Right now I am doing both so I stay busy. I like that because it keeps my mind off difficult child.</p><p></p><p>It was so good to see all of you again. Fran, I live about 30 minutes from you. I'm glad that you survived the snow storms.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 620344, member: 1967"] I wish that I, too, had a success story. My difficult child is 28-years-old now and still struggling. A little over a year ago, we learned that our difficult child had started shooting up heroin. We staged an intervention and sent her to a highly regarded dual diagnosis center in south Florida. She spent three months there and then went to a sober house. She left the sober house last summer and found a full time job to support herself. She did very well until Christmas. She relapsed shortly after she went back after spending a week with us for Christmas. We just found out that she had started drinking again. I already suspected but I found out for sure when she lost her job. My hope is that she goes back into treatment. We will see. My easy child is doing great. She is 25-years-old and is in her third year of teaching high school math. The students and administration love her. I know that because one of my best friends is an assistant principal at her school and is always telling me what a great job easy child is doing. My husband never got another job in the corporate world after the company he was working for went under during the recession. After spending two years looking for a job in the corporate world and watching the 30-year-old interviewer's face fall when he walked through with his white hair, he knew that no one in the high tech world was going to hire someone in his late fifties. So he took up an new career . . . teaching! He went through a special program for helping people transition from the corporate world into education and got his teaching certificate. He even had to student teach. After working part time at my school as a math teacher, he was hired full time and has been at my school for three years. We even had side-by-side trailers for a while. I plan to teach for another two years and then retire from my full time face-to-face school and teach part time for an online school. Right now I am doing both so I stay busy. I like that because it keeps my mind off difficult child. It was so good to see all of you again. Fran, I live about 30 minutes from you. I'm glad that you survived the snow storms. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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