My teenager with #Autism and #RAD

When Gavin and Elliott came home from Lizze's parents house today, Elliott was pretty upset. Gavin likes to monopolize the TV while he's at his grandparents house.  This happens at my parents house as well.  Regardless of what anyone else wants to watch, Gavin claims the remote and watches what he wants.  We've spoken with Gavin about this on many occasions.  Elliott was trying to tell Gavin how this made him feel and Gavin was completely blowing him off.  We tried to get Gavin to understand how his actions impact others and he just wasn't having it. Gavin's always been like this but sometimes it's worse than other times.  Overall this wasn't a huge deal. However, that changed when he decided to run his mouth to Lizze in response. I'm…

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I’m a Daddy that loves to snuggle my kids

Emmett was having a really rough time and so him and I snuggled on the couch and we both fell asleep.  I think we took a 3 hour nap. The fact that Emmett napped reflects the fact that he's not feeling well. It was really nice to snuggle with him. I'm one of those Daddy's that loves to snuggle with his kids.  To me, it's so relaxing and one of my most favorite things in the world.  Hopefully, the second half of the day will go better than the first. This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

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I’m worried about my wife :(

Lizze isn't doing well today at all.  She's in a great deal of pain and her tremors are really bad.  In fact, the tremors are so bad that she keeps dropping her phone. This is of course, really frustrating and demoralizing for her.  The meds to control the tremors puts her right to sleep and so that puts more on me. This translates to Daddy not getting anything done.  I'm happy to help, don't get me wrong.  It's just that there is no one there to pick up the slack for me. Whatever I don't get done, simply doesn't get done and unfortunately, there's a lot that needs done.  Lizze needed to go lay down a little while ago. Hopefully when she wakes up she's going to be feeling a…

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I’m worried about Emmett

Emmett slept great last night but woke up this morning coughing and hacking. He's worse than he was last night.  He's breathing fine so that's obviously a huge positive. I'm having a hard time getting him to drink milk and he's just about out of ice cream.  Having said that, I do remember why the milk and ice cream is so important.  Lizze reminded me that the milk neutralizes the soap solution. Make sense? I'm going to have to keep a very close eye on him.  He's This whole thing is making me nervous.  This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

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Our Favorite Parenting Tweets This Week

Here are our favorite parenting tweets from this past week, many from local moms and dads:     The second week of camp is always considerably fuller. All the parents who wanted their kids home for the summer have since reconsidered. — Bunmi Laditan…

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We just got home from the Emergency Room. Here’s what happened

I'm keeping this short and sweet because I'm completely exhausted and I have a little one to look after right now.  That's right, he's not sleeping.  Basically, Emmett was blowing bubbles today with my Mom, while we were with Gavin at his infusion.  My Mom is always doing crafts with the boys and they love it.  Today they made a homemade bubble blower thing.  Long story short, instead of blowing the soap to make a bubble, Emmett sucked it in and inhaled the soapy water.  He then vomited all over the yard, quite a bit actually. At some point, he must have aspirated some of the solution into his lungs.  This evening we started noticing problems and he would get to the point that he actually couldn't even talk. We…

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