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<blockquote data-quote="jal" data-source="post: 295167" data-attributes="member: 3477"><p>My difficult child was hospitalized last year right after his 6th b-day. We were doing a medication wash under his psychiatrist's guidance and difficult child became unstable and a danger to himself. Under our psychiatrist's advice we took him to the ER. Of course there he did not show symptoms and waited pretty well for 6 hours in a room with-us. But I think what really got him the admittal was my huge difficult child binder. Along with our parent report it holds every piece of documentation from the time we started our journey. The attending was so impressed with everything we had persued he told me he would fight to get difficult child in and they did for 3 weeks. Be advised though that most hospitals are not going to evaluate a child who has been admitted. They will try to stablilize the child. We had already had the neuropsychologist done etc. What came out of it though was assistance from the hospital in helping to team us with a program in our community that offers intensive in home services. Our difficult child receives them 2 times a week since last fall. Also, the hospitalization helped us to get out of disctrict placement for our child. Our child needed this. He needed a small, structured setting for learning. These 2 things along with a bit of maturity and medications have really helped difficult child. Things aren't perfect, but they are vastly better. difficult child is excelling at school and the tantrums are rare now. He attended a day camp for the first time and excelled. For us at the time it was the right thing to do, but so hard to leave your 6 yr old in the care of people you don't know and on a ward where he was the youngest. I think it was harder on us than him, but it helped all of us regroup. husband and I were able to relax, knowing difficult child was safe and we were able to recharge ourselves to prepare for our next steps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jal, post: 295167, member: 3477"] My difficult child was hospitalized last year right after his 6th b-day. We were doing a medication wash under his psychiatrist's guidance and difficult child became unstable and a danger to himself. Under our psychiatrist's advice we took him to the ER. Of course there he did not show symptoms and waited pretty well for 6 hours in a room with-us. But I think what really got him the admittal was my huge difficult child binder. Along with our parent report it holds every piece of documentation from the time we started our journey. The attending was so impressed with everything we had persued he told me he would fight to get difficult child in and they did for 3 weeks. Be advised though that most hospitals are not going to evaluate a child who has been admitted. They will try to stablilize the child. We had already had the neuropsychologist done etc. What came out of it though was assistance from the hospital in helping to team us with a program in our community that offers intensive in home services. Our difficult child receives them 2 times a week since last fall. Also, the hospitalization helped us to get out of disctrict placement for our child. Our child needed this. He needed a small, structured setting for learning. These 2 things along with a bit of maturity and medications have really helped difficult child. Things aren't perfect, but they are vastly better. difficult child is excelling at school and the tantrums are rare now. He attended a day camp for the first time and excelled. For us at the time it was the right thing to do, but so hard to leave your 6 yr old in the care of people you don't know and on a ward where he was the youngest. I think it was harder on us than him, but it helped all of us regroup. husband and I were able to relax, knowing difficult child was safe and we were able to recharge ourselves to prepare for our next steps. [/QUOTE]
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