Allowance. Does your autistic child earn an allowance? If our main goal is to give them as normal life as possible making and managing money will be important. Obviously, each situation is different but I do feel that it's also a very important lesson we can teach them. We need to revisit the idea with Gavin. It hasn't worked well in the past with him but he's a rather unique case. Do you have your autistic child help out around the house (if possible)? Do you allow them to earn an allowance? I'm curious how the community views this. LT Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry: LT

When summer rolls around so do new problems. Gavin has major sensory issues. The one that concerns us the most during the summer is that he's always cold. Right now there is a heat advisory out. Gavin will wear sweat pants, a short sleeve shirt, a long sleeve shirt over that and then a hoody. He sleeps in these same clothes underneath a comforter. He won't allow a fan to be on or a window to be open. I don't know how he does that. We have to make him choose between the blanket or a fan (just as an example). He also doesn't sweat, ever. How far to we push him to cool his room off if he's uncomfortable with it? A what point do we have to step…

Last night was a rough one. No one wanted to sleep. Lizze was restless all night and later moved to the couch. EJ woke up at 4am to the sound of ER screaming. It was all down hill from there. Today is a very busy, especially for Lizze. She has back to back to back appointments. Wish us luck. Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry: LT

I really have to give Gavin credit. As much pain as he has to be in he's doing great. He's not rubbing his eye or being all dramatic. I told him yesterday after he hurt it and was flinging himself around that we can't help him unless he's under control. Today has been a great day for him. I sorry he's going through this but proud of the way he's handling it. LT

Here is a picture of Gavin's eye. It looks really painful but he's doing really well today. I'm very proud of him. Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry: LT

They just got home a little while ago. The eye doc said that his eye is definitely not looking real good. He said there really isn't anything we can do right now but wait and let it heal. Gavin is making it worse with the rubbing though and that has to stop. Luckily him new meds make him very sleepy so he'll sleep through the next few days. If it's not better in the next day or so we have to get him back in. That 's all for now. LT

Lizze has Gavin at the doctors for his eye follow up. I'm just copying and pasting what she wrote on her blog. it will be easier. "Dr. H just left. He's either very stressed or he saw something he didn't like but isn't sharing the news with me. He checked out Gavin's eye and corneal abrasion, which is now oozing "pussy drainage". He left the room to go call Dr. Ro and see if he could squeeze Gavin in today because of the "pussy drainage" and the fact that his eye is so red and inflamed now. Good news! Dr. Ro can squeeze us in but we are going to be here for a while since they don't think we'll get in till sometime around 2pm. Ew...the receptionist just said, "Oh…