The honeymoon phase with Gavin is officially over. We had our first full fledged meltdown since his return from the psych unit. He's done pretty well until this point and I give him all the credit in the world for that. However, while his physical behavior has been better his continued disrespect for Lizze has continued to get worse.
After meeting with Dr. Patti last night, we have all agreed that we *must* crack down on the disrespect. There is absolutely no excuse for this type of behavior.
It was also decided that we would maintain the *oatmeal *thing but since he says it doesn't bother him anymore, we need to add something in addition to it. For example, we can have him write "I will be respectful to my mother, she loves me and deserves better" like 25 times. Something to that affect.
He's jumped right back into the very self-injurious behavior once again. He has shown no aggression towards anyone else, so that's a plus.
Having said that, we are going to have to follow through on our threat to call the police, if this continues. Absolutely no part of me wants to open that can of worms.
Right now, the only reason we allowed this today was because he did this minutes before Lizze was getting picked up for her MRI. She has missed it at least twice now due to something Gavin related and she needs to get this done. The obvious downside is that I have to deal with this on my own.
The funny thing or not so funny thing, depending on how you look at it, is he kept stopping his meltdown so that he could check his heart rate. As soon as he was done, he would start all over again.
If that isn't control, I don't know what is.
