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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 39280" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Thank you all so much for your caring thoughts....you are a wonderful group of people....and I very much appreciate you prayers and thoughts.</p><p></p><p>I talked to the doctors at length today about chemical restraint, which would be much better I think as well, but since he is 16, he has "legal rights" now to refuse medications. Ugh..... I did talk to him this eve though, about how if he refused medications, he could end up in restraints, and the choice was completely up to him. He seemed more willing to take them once I presented the options in that way. He is very smart, and astoute (sp?) about his medications, and he wants to know what he is taking, why, and the side effects - but none of that was communicated to him today, and he was scared to take what was being offered. Once I explained the medications, and what they were to him, he agreed he would take them if he felt that upset again. We will see....at least he was calm tonite when I talked to him.</p><p></p><p>You know, it is funny - no matter if your child is in physical or mental pain - we as Mom have the same mama bear reaction. To hear him screaming today, to hear they were restraining him, to hear he cried for 2 hours after that, all made me want to do nothing but go and protect my baby cub. It was a fierce, physical, biological reaction, and it was all I could do to not go there and rescue him. Pain is pain, whether it is physical or mental we have such an instinct to protect - and the mental pain our difficult child's go through is just as painful as a child that has a disease of the body....it is all equally as tragic.</p><p></p><p>My hope and prayer is that this will be a turning point for Matt....he has been through so much in his life....the list is endless, and he needs to be able to heal and find peace. </p><p></p><p>Thanks again for thinking of us....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 39280, member: 3301"] Thank you all so much for your caring thoughts....you are a wonderful group of people....and I very much appreciate you prayers and thoughts. I talked to the doctors at length today about chemical restraint, which would be much better I think as well, but since he is 16, he has "legal rights" now to refuse medications. Ugh..... I did talk to him this eve though, about how if he refused medications, he could end up in restraints, and the choice was completely up to him. He seemed more willing to take them once I presented the options in that way. He is very smart, and astoute (sp?) about his medications, and he wants to know what he is taking, why, and the side effects - but none of that was communicated to him today, and he was scared to take what was being offered. Once I explained the medications, and what they were to him, he agreed he would take them if he felt that upset again. We will see....at least he was calm tonite when I talked to him. You know, it is funny - no matter if your child is in physical or mental pain - we as Mom have the same mama bear reaction. To hear him screaming today, to hear they were restraining him, to hear he cried for 2 hours after that, all made me want to do nothing but go and protect my baby cub. It was a fierce, physical, biological reaction, and it was all I could do to not go there and rescue him. Pain is pain, whether it is physical or mental we have such an instinct to protect - and the mental pain our difficult child's go through is just as painful as a child that has a disease of the body....it is all equally as tragic. My hope and prayer is that this will be a turning point for Matt....he has been through so much in his life....the list is endless, and he needs to be able to heal and find peace. Thanks again for thinking of us.... [/QUOTE]
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