*Disclaimer: my brain is fried and I'll proof this in the morning.. *
It's been a long couple of days. Friday we had Vivint at the house all day and Thursday we had Spectrum out for the second or third time in the last week. While it was stressful but I think we got everything finally buttoned up.
Our internet has been working for about three days straight but the kids were complaining it was offline yesterday morning. It was working when I checked, so we're going to run with it.
Gavin's been very, very, very, very challenging this week. We're having problems with him telling us about health problems he's having.
It's like he processes things all wonky because the stuff that doesn't matter, we hear about all the time. The stuff we need to know about right away, we're not hearing about until days, weeks or even months after the fact.
I can't think of any other ways to break this down for him. He either forgets or decides *it's not a* *big deal.*
I've told him to tell us absolutely everything and we will decide if it's important but he still leaves the important stuff out. Frankly, I'm at my wits end because we learned yesterday that he still has diarrhea (see *I was so frustrated I could scream** *for the back story there.
To the best of our knowledge, that was resolved within a few days of that above linked post being written. Turns out it hasn't gotten better, although he absolutely told us it had.
All this time he's been eating regular food, when we should have had him on the *BRAT *diet. All this time he's been telling us he was better and he wasn't.
Most of the time we have to take him at his word because we don't get to see anything with our own eyes. He doesn't remember to show us and doesn't tell us when he goes to the bathroom. In fact, he can't even remember when he goes to the bathroom.
He's very easily confused and if we question him too much, he'll simply start telling us what *he thinks we want to hear. *That only makes things worse because then we don't know what to believe.
I think the only thing we can do at this point is get him back into the doctor. We're getting too many conflicting stories to know what to believe.
This is just one of the increasing challenges we facing when it comes to Gavin. He's isn't intentionally doing or not doing anything. It's just the nature of his conditions and there's no malicious motives.
We've also seen an uptick in significant Meltdowns with Gavin as well. He's had a pretty massive one tonight before bed.
Anyway, we have seen some positive things and some *not so *positive things.
Let me just give you the general rundown and I'll just list them below:
Positive
- The internet is finally working
- I've been able to get out walking almost every night
- We caught one of the raccoons yesterday (see the video below)
- The boys and I have been working on a Minecraft Realm together, each night before bed
- I've gained two new advertising gigs and assuming they do what they have agreed to do, we will slowly be getting back on our feet
*Not so *Positive
- Emmett's in a fever flare for the first time in quite some time
- My grandfather is back in the hospital
- There's still at least one more raccoon to catch
- School starts in two days and money's insanely tight
- I'm going to need to figure out how to go grocery shopping
- The brakes on the front end of the car are having pretty major problems
- Gavin's Meltdowns are getting worse
That about sums things up for now. I'm exhausted and after sleeping on the couch with Emmett last night, I need to get some sleep tonight.
As promised, the video below shows how someone with zero experience trapping wild animals, goes about trapping raccoons in their attic. Be advised that in the heat of the moment, I do use some colorful language.
