Marguerite
Active Member
It's been an interesting week.
Last Friday I drove easy child 2/difficult child 2 to the uni campus where they're doing her neuropsychologist assessment. The first session was three hours and they wanted me for some of it for history. She's back there this Friday for the next session. I'm driving her there again, it is easier this way.
The following Monday (two days ago) she saw the neurologist for the second time. He did an EEG and I was there when he met up with her. Yes, he will write the prescription, but he has a lot of hoops to jump through first with the Dept of Health. I told him that easy child 2/difficult child 2 is talking about dropping out of uni (again) because she has been unable to study while unmedicated. I need to look for a campus nearby that we can enrol her into, she says studying by correspondence is not working for her.
The neurologist has planned to see her again on Monday, this time he specially asked for it to be without me. I'm cool with that. He says he has to get to know her by herself, let her be free to answer his questions without worrying about what I might think. It's not a problem for her, but he needs to be sure of this. Besides, it saves me trekking out early if I don't need to.
Today - I trekked out. easy child 2/difficult child 2 had an 11 am phone appointment with her uni disabilities counsellor (on the other side of the country). It was not terribly helpful, the counsellor will talk to easy child 2/GFG2s teachers but can't really do much more. I'd like easy child 2/difficult child 2 to finish this semester at least, if she can, to make a transfer easier. But it will need medications. And this would not have been a problem if the shrink she saw back in January had written the prescription like everyone said should have happened. It's been absolutely crazy.
And now to the others.
difficult child 1 has his medications, I picked them up last Friday and we dropped them in to him. But he needs to find a new specialist, or get the previous one to authorise his GP to prescribe.
difficult child 3 has a meeting at school tomorrow, to sit with SpEd and look at how difficult child 3's study plan is going. Our initial assessment - it's not going anywhere and the last person to accept this is difficult child 3. I rang college to ask them how that course is going, he's got more leeway there, they can be more flexible. So I'm predicting that one likely outcome from tomorrow will be the advice to drop school, to aim for college instead. Once he gets his college qualification, he won't need his high school graduation. While he tries for both, he could fail both. But if he invests in one or the other, he has more chance of success.
Tomorrow's meeting is likely to be stormy. I have to slip out at some point to get my eyes checked, my glasses broke yesterday and they're holding together by one little s crew. I take them off my face and they fall apart. Kind of how I feel really...
It will cost me over $1000 to get new glasses because my prescription is so strong (non-standard). Insurance will cover maybe $200 if that.
I'm typing this while sitting in the club, we're about to leave so difficult child 3 can get to drama class.
Time to go.
I'll check in later.
Marg
Last Friday I drove easy child 2/difficult child 2 to the uni campus where they're doing her neuropsychologist assessment. The first session was three hours and they wanted me for some of it for history. She's back there this Friday for the next session. I'm driving her there again, it is easier this way.
The following Monday (two days ago) she saw the neurologist for the second time. He did an EEG and I was there when he met up with her. Yes, he will write the prescription, but he has a lot of hoops to jump through first with the Dept of Health. I told him that easy child 2/difficult child 2 is talking about dropping out of uni (again) because she has been unable to study while unmedicated. I need to look for a campus nearby that we can enrol her into, she says studying by correspondence is not working for her.
The neurologist has planned to see her again on Monday, this time he specially asked for it to be without me. I'm cool with that. He says he has to get to know her by herself, let her be free to answer his questions without worrying about what I might think. It's not a problem for her, but he needs to be sure of this. Besides, it saves me trekking out early if I don't need to.
Today - I trekked out. easy child 2/difficult child 2 had an 11 am phone appointment with her uni disabilities counsellor (on the other side of the country). It was not terribly helpful, the counsellor will talk to easy child 2/GFG2s teachers but can't really do much more. I'd like easy child 2/difficult child 2 to finish this semester at least, if she can, to make a transfer easier. But it will need medications. And this would not have been a problem if the shrink she saw back in January had written the prescription like everyone said should have happened. It's been absolutely crazy.
And now to the others.
difficult child 1 has his medications, I picked them up last Friday and we dropped them in to him. But he needs to find a new specialist, or get the previous one to authorise his GP to prescribe.
difficult child 3 has a meeting at school tomorrow, to sit with SpEd and look at how difficult child 3's study plan is going. Our initial assessment - it's not going anywhere and the last person to accept this is difficult child 3. I rang college to ask them how that course is going, he's got more leeway there, they can be more flexible. So I'm predicting that one likely outcome from tomorrow will be the advice to drop school, to aim for college instead. Once he gets his college qualification, he won't need his high school graduation. While he tries for both, he could fail both. But if he invests in one or the other, he has more chance of success.
Tomorrow's meeting is likely to be stormy. I have to slip out at some point to get my eyes checked, my glasses broke yesterday and they're holding together by one little s crew. I take them off my face and they fall apart. Kind of how I feel really...
It will cost me over $1000 to get new glasses because my prescription is so strong (non-standard). Insurance will cover maybe $200 if that.
I'm typing this while sitting in the club, we're about to leave so difficult child 3 can get to drama class.
Time to go.
I'll check in later.
Marg
