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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 468837" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>sue did say it very eloquently.</p><p></p><p>how do you learn to stop worrying? thats the million dollar question...in my opinion, you don't. you just learn to cope with it.</p><p></p><p>how do you learn to cope? you take it one day at a time. appreciate each one. you have to just know you are doing all you can, and stay in the here and now. worrying about the "what ifs" won't help her OR you.</p><p></p><p>susie is also right--the incidence level of PTSD among parents of medically challenged kids is high. probably *much* higher than documented, because most of us just muddle through and dont seek treatment. and we really should--whether its a support group, medications, therapy, whatever.</p><p></p><p> (i'm diagnosis'd with PTSD due to difficult child 1, but other than the occasional xanax, dont do much about it--there is no one locally that i'd trust to do EMDR on me. but i'm very intrigued over this <em>ongoing</em> traumatic stress disorder...never heard of it before now, don't know the critera, but is my picture next to the diagnosis?!).</p><p></p><p>none of us know what will happen tomorrow, let along 25 years from now. if you are ruminating over it, medications DO help quiet that long-playing loop in your head. </p><p></p><p>i missed the reasoning behind waiting til 12 to carry her own pen, but one proactive thing i'd do is revisit that with her doctor immediately if shes that anaphalatic. she really needs to have it on her person at all times. </p><p>i'm assuming she has enough of a history of it that she knows the drill and for a myriad of reasons, cant see why she wouldnt be capable of self injecting. (i'd still have epi-pens in all the places you already have them--school, bus, home, whereever). that tiny thing alone might make *YOU* feel a bit safer--its really an important self help skill that she should start developing asap. i presume she uses her own inhaler when she needs to right? no real difference between the two things.</p><p></p><p>that being said, obviously, in case she panics, each and every person that comes in contact with her or supervises her needs to be trained and have a pen available--adults panic...i wouldnt expect a 10 year old to be the *only* person that knows how to use it (bet me she's be the last to panic). </p><p> </p><p>but (((HUGS))). </p><p></p><p>its all easier said than done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 468837, member: 8831"] sue did say it very eloquently. how do you learn to stop worrying? thats the million dollar question...in my opinion, you don't. you just learn to cope with it. how do you learn to cope? you take it one day at a time. appreciate each one. you have to just know you are doing all you can, and stay in the here and now. worrying about the "what ifs" won't help her OR you. susie is also right--the incidence level of PTSD among parents of medically challenged kids is high. probably *much* higher than documented, because most of us just muddle through and dont seek treatment. and we really should--whether its a support group, medications, therapy, whatever. (i'm diagnosis'd with PTSD due to difficult child 1, but other than the occasional xanax, dont do much about it--there is no one locally that i'd trust to do EMDR on me. but i'm very intrigued over this [I]ongoing[/I] traumatic stress disorder...never heard of it before now, don't know the critera, but is my picture next to the diagnosis?!). none of us know what will happen tomorrow, let along 25 years from now. if you are ruminating over it, medications DO help quiet that long-playing loop in your head. i missed the reasoning behind waiting til 12 to carry her own pen, but one proactive thing i'd do is revisit that with her doctor immediately if shes that anaphalatic. she really needs to have it on her person at all times. i'm assuming she has enough of a history of it that she knows the drill and for a myriad of reasons, cant see why she wouldnt be capable of self injecting. (i'd still have epi-pens in all the places you already have them--school, bus, home, whereever). that tiny thing alone might make *YOU* feel a bit safer--its really an important self help skill that she should start developing asap. i presume she uses her own inhaler when she needs to right? no real difference between the two things. that being said, obviously, in case she panics, each and every person that comes in contact with her or supervises her needs to be trained and have a pen available--adults panic...i wouldnt expect a 10 year old to be the *only* person that knows how to use it (bet me she's be the last to panic). but (((HUGS))). its all easier said than done. [/QUOTE]
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