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Got there, was in the middle of signing him out and in comes doctor and a nurse. They say he has been flipping out over the schedule change. I guess he needed more prep and this is how rigid he is. If a hospital can't change it, you can imagine how my life is. but I am used to it. doctor felt it was not worth getting him so totally agitated when he was doing so much better. So they made him part of the discharge plan, and I talked to him so he knew it was MY decision if he could stay or come home ( can't just act awful and stay). He did not get to watch a movie that he planned on due to the naughty words he was using but though he said that is why he couldn't go , really it was clear he was just so thrown by the schedule change and it was just not his plan. He doesn't care about the movie, he just needed to know the details and be relieved. He was not able to communicate well an tried to hit me (little hits not the rage stuff, still not ok but a totally different thing medically speaking...this we can work with) and once I said what WILL happen and what Wont happen, he jsut got up and said ok and walked out. UMMM, he was just so anxious and it looks like he is being such a defiant kid. But it was clear, even though he didn't get what he said he wanted, it was about his rigid mindset. He was so thrown off course. So, we are planning for tomorrow no matter what. He is perseverating on the game boy that was lost but he has a new one thanks to a friend who's daughter didn't want hers anymore. I have it charged and ready to go and I told him if he rides home nicely we can stop at Game Stop and he can pick a used game (need to save money...now another day without pay!).
I really wanted him home. I am kind of sad. But it wil be ok.
He did ask about the new home plan..well not so much asked formally, but really he did his usual ignore that I ever heard anything to the contrary thing... He said, I can't wait to play with my friends outside tomorrow. I said remember the treatment team and I decided that is not a choice anymore. We need to see that you are able to control your words and actions for a full month before I can let you go outside again. And then you will need to be iwth mom at all times until time goes by that we see you can handle it out there.
I wish they could have seen him this summer and early fall. He was working it! Played WITH other kids, used kind words, listened to me. It was all new and he was not great at it but he was so happy. He was able to follow cues to correct behaviors pretty well. He is who he is and did not have perfect days by any means but he was moving forward. I just feel terrible we are on the down swing of this roller coaster again. Hopefully we are now just going around a curve.
psychiatric hospital. just called... she said she followed up and he picked a time and he is totally calm now and even thanked her for helping him. He seems like such a bully when he acts that way but once you see what the problem is, he is able to become himself again. Just very preschool like....
Social worker there said she is jealous of my life....NOT (haha)
I really wanted him home. I am kind of sad. But it wil be ok.
He did ask about the new home plan..well not so much asked formally, but really he did his usual ignore that I ever heard anything to the contrary thing... He said, I can't wait to play with my friends outside tomorrow. I said remember the treatment team and I decided that is not a choice anymore. We need to see that you are able to control your words and actions for a full month before I can let you go outside again. And then you will need to be iwth mom at all times until time goes by that we see you can handle it out there.
I wish they could have seen him this summer and early fall. He was working it! Played WITH other kids, used kind words, listened to me. It was all new and he was not great at it but he was so happy. He was able to follow cues to correct behaviors pretty well. He is who he is and did not have perfect days by any means but he was moving forward. I just feel terrible we are on the down swing of this roller coaster again. Hopefully we are now just going around a curve.
psychiatric hospital. just called... she said she followed up and he picked a time and he is totally calm now and even thanked her for helping him. He seems like such a bully when he acts that way but once you see what the problem is, he is able to become himself again. Just very preschool like....
Social worker there said she is jealous of my life....NOT (haha)