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<blockquote data-quote="jodyice" data-source="post: 15678" data-attributes="member: 3337"><p>kris, from what I understood, both highs and lows could cause an agitation in someone, but when difficult child can as well become agitated/violent when glucose levels are within range, the doctors can't blame it on that. Would be nice if that was the only time he exploded, be an easier *fix* perhaps. </p><p>I think he was sleepy because of 1.avoidance and 2. they increased the dosage of Geodon. Which I didn't know until we talked to the nurse yesterday.</p><p>We have a call into his psychiatrist, but if she responds this time like in the past it will be a few days.</p><p>About the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), everyone continues to talk about a place we've tried before. It's not really a Residential Treatment Center (RTC), but a school for the deaf that specifically deals with behavior problems in children. The children live in group homes and the program lasts a year, longer if need be. The problem we had before with trying to get him placement, is they aren't staffed with a nurse, but out school district said they would pay for a nurse, and the staff would have to get some training in understanding low and high blood sugars and be able to give an emergency shot if difficult child would start going into shock, and the staff at Children's Hospital would actually go to the school for the training, if need be. Now the school refused last time, but maybe this time we can do something more to make them see how imperative he be placed there.</p><p>What the counselor said when we were there on Tuesday was, "This is the first time he's been admitted to this hospital, we don't know him well enough to make that kind of recommendation." And the way I took it is more that the insurance company would ask what this is based on, and they would have only one record from this particular hospital. Which still don't make any sense to us, because they can get records from the previous hospitals that he's been in to see how close these hospital *visits* are now becoming and the escalation of the violence to get him there. Maybe they're waiting till he really hurts one of us or worse. ~sighing~</p><p>We have another meeting this Friday, what the counselor called a *community meeting*, to talk about a safety plan, etc. husband is going to get the warrior dad outfit on. He's better at getting a point across without bursting into tears than what I am. But they are going to have a fight on their hands. husband and I were talking yesterday about what sort of help our family based team has provided since they've been in place (October), and we really can't see anything that they've done to help difficult child. They've made 2 safety plans and neither one of them have worked so far, plus if you count the safety plans from the last team we had, that's 8 different safety plans that have worked very little or not at all. This last episode needs to be addressed more fully and they've not done that yet.</p><p>~stepping off the soap box~ Sorry for being so long winded. It's 2:30am and I have all this stuff jumbled in my head and needed to try and sort some of it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jodyice, post: 15678, member: 3337"] kris, from what I understood, both highs and lows could cause an agitation in someone, but when difficult child can as well become agitated/violent when glucose levels are within range, the doctors can't blame it on that. Would be nice if that was the only time he exploded, be an easier *fix* perhaps. I think he was sleepy because of 1.avoidance and 2. they increased the dosage of Geodon. Which I didn't know until we talked to the nurse yesterday. We have a call into his psychiatrist, but if she responds this time like in the past it will be a few days. About the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), everyone continues to talk about a place we've tried before. It's not really a Residential Treatment Center (RTC), but a school for the deaf that specifically deals with behavior problems in children. The children live in group homes and the program lasts a year, longer if need be. The problem we had before with trying to get him placement, is they aren't staffed with a nurse, but out school district said they would pay for a nurse, and the staff would have to get some training in understanding low and high blood sugars and be able to give an emergency shot if difficult child would start going into shock, and the staff at Children's Hospital would actually go to the school for the training, if need be. Now the school refused last time, but maybe this time we can do something more to make them see how imperative he be placed there. What the counselor said when we were there on Tuesday was, "This is the first time he's been admitted to this hospital, we don't know him well enough to make that kind of recommendation." And the way I took it is more that the insurance company would ask what this is based on, and they would have only one record from this particular hospital. Which still don't make any sense to us, because they can get records from the previous hospitals that he's been in to see how close these hospital *visits* are now becoming and the escalation of the violence to get him there. Maybe they're waiting till he really hurts one of us or worse. ~sighing~ We have another meeting this Friday, what the counselor called a *community meeting*, to talk about a safety plan, etc. husband is going to get the warrior dad outfit on. He's better at getting a point across without bursting into tears than what I am. But they are going to have a fight on their hands. husband and I were talking yesterday about what sort of help our family based team has provided since they've been in place (October), and we really can't see anything that they've done to help difficult child. They've made 2 safety plans and neither one of them have worked so far, plus if you count the safety plans from the last team we had, that's 8 different safety plans that have worked very little or not at all. This last episode needs to be addressed more fully and they've not done that yet. ~stepping off the soap box~ Sorry for being so long winded. It's 2:30am and I have all this stuff jumbled in my head and needed to try and sort some of it out. [/QUOTE]
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