On Friday, we have our very first, official wraparound meeting.  This meeting will take place at Gavin's school and involve teachers, family, doctors and therapists. Basically, this will be about identifying our needs as well as ways that they can help support us. I'm not sure what can really help accomplished here, since what is really needed is Gavin in residential care. Having said that, it's a process and one that is required in order to proceed.  I'm going to have to speak with the school about who we want at the meeting and who we don't want involved.  Right now, I have my concerns about one person and I contemplating removing this person from the team.  That may seem counter productive but in the end, it's our team and…

Elliott pulled this out of his backpack this morning before going to school.  I just love it.  This shows that he's focusing on something other than Mario for once.  I thought this was really cool and wanted to be sure to share this with all of you. :-)

Do you remember the old cartoon,  The Gummy Bears.  Remember how they are bouncing here and there and everywhere? Elliott and Emmett have been channeling these high flying and extremely energetic bears since about 5 o'clock this morning.  They are in super duper hyper mode and literally bouncing off of everything in sight, including each other.  I'm going on the record as saying that I wish I could have a fraction of their energy. Even a fraction of a fraction would last me awhile.  I have no idea what the heck happened while they were sleeping but holy crap, it's going to be a really long day.

So we had our appointment with Dr.  Reynolds yesterday.  The main discussion centered around Elliott and how's he's doing on the anti-anxiety medication Tenex. We went over all of our concerns and ultimately decided, with Dr.  Reynolds, to pull the plug on the Tenex.  He will have to be weened off over the next 10 days. We are also going to play around with his ADHD medication and see if it's really benefiting him at all.  When I say playing around, I just mean withholding it for a few days and see how he does.  This medication is very fast acting and can be started or stopped at any point.  Hopefully, we can balance Elliott out and help him to get some traction once again. 

As a father to 3 boys in different places on the #Autism spectrum, I have rarely found any one thing that can capture the attention of both Elliott and Emmett at the same time.  Typically,  the only thing Web have found was video game related. That was until last night. In my fruitless effort to get my house in order, I picked up a box of replacement Swiffer heads. I did a quick once over and was putting them away. Apparently, I caught the attention of Emmett who was wanting to know what the heck I was doing.  Admittedly, it's really sad that Emmett hasn't witnessed me dusting enough in his 4 years of life, to know what dusting was. That's a pretty big fail on my part as a…

You know how a pet can have a certain quality? Something that you always associate with them. Well,  we have only had Dean for a few days but it's become very clear that he has a very special talent. It turns out that anytime that Dean gets scared, he poops on the floor. This has happened 3 or 4 times now.  Maggie had Dean sorta cornered behind a piece of furniture this afternoon and once again, had the crap scared out of him, literally. The other three times, Dean pooped on Lizze.  :-)

Today is going to be a day of medication changes for the Lost and Tired family.  I've already discussed Elliott's situation but I haven't explained Gavin's.  Tonight, Gavin will begin taking ativan as a means of suppressing his constantly elevated heart rate. We're going intobthis knowing that there are some serious risk factors.  The combination of the ativan and the clozapine that he's already on increases the risks of side effects for both drugs. The ativan isn't as big of a deal but the clozapine is.  Clozapine is the most tightly controlled medication in the United States. It's been responsible for many deaths in the EU. The most serious and deadly side effect has to do with the destruction of immune system.  If safely controlled and tightly monitored, Clozapine is…