Gavin had a pretty good day at school today. Which is really good. We are still struggling at home though. He straight up ignores Elliott Richard when he is talking to him. Gavin has been acting really weird (more than normal). I really think we need to move to different meds. Maybe there is something to pulling him completely off and see what happens. We have done that before and it wasn't pretty so maybe that's a bad idea.. Gavin is at the point now where he doesn't make any sense sometimes when talking. He is also really, really lacking the brain mouth filter anymore. The things that come out of is mouth never ceases to amaze, embarrass or down right horrify me. He always manages to say the most inappropriate things…

One of the things I think is unique about this blog is the fact it comes from a male perspective. The perspective of a husband and father. I want to share with you what I feel like at this exact moment with all of this going on around me. In my family my wife is sick. She has fibromyalgia which is basicly a life sentence of constant pain. Lizze has migraines almost everyday. When she walks around I can hear her joints pop due to the arthritis. She carries this burden so gracefully it's completely humbling. Gavin our 10 year old son whom I have raised since he was about a year old and finally was able to adopt about 2 years ago is autistic. Not only did God see…

Today has been really busy. Gavin has been in rare form all weekend. My wife got up with the kids this morning and let me sleep (Thanks). Gavin is like a walking, slow motion zombie. I would think he is over medicated but I don't think he is. We should hear from Dr. R in the morning about med changes. I took some stuff in to "The Exchange" to get some cash. They take video game stuff, cd's and dvd's for trade or cash. I'm slowly gutting all of the things we have collected but never use. After that I had to return some computer stuff to my all time favorite store, Best Buy. It was all gift card returns so I used that and some points and picked up…

I would just like to go on the record as stating that I'm very new to the blogging world. I'm still learning all the etiquette. If I say or include something in a post that is not kosher please point it out to me. My wife correctly pointed out that I should get permission before mentioning some one's blog in a post. I didn't realize that.  I'm a pretty informal person by nature but going forward I will try to keep all these things in mind as best I can. When I do slip up, and I will, please let me know. As usual, thanks for reading.  Thanks LT

We are once again having "pain" issues with Gavin. We used to get them checked out all the time but they were always deemed to be psychosomatic. We were told not to feed into them because with a child like Gavin we would just be reinforcing that there was something wrong. Yesterday Gavin started rubbing his left eye. Now we checked and there was nothing in his eye and it wasn't even red. We made him stop rubbing it and told him it will get worse if he continues to rub it. During most of the day we never heard anything about it until it was time for free read before bed. He kept coming back downstairs in an obvious attempt to avoid reading his book. Next thing we know…

New article up at the examiner. Topic is fibromyalgia and surgery. LT

I touched on this last night a little bit already. Elliott Richard is getting more and more frustrated with everything Gavin. He wants to play with Gavin in the worst way but it rarely works out. Gavin likes to play his way (which is the only right way in his mind) and Elliott Richards wants to play his. We have to keep things pretty mundane because Gavin just gets to out of control and someone gets hurt. I'm not sure how to best explain to Elliott Richard that Gavin is different. I know he realizes that Gavin is different but doesn't understand why. For example we just got home from my parents house (they were watching the kids for Lizze's appointment). While we were there they were playing a game…

Disclaimer: This is not an easy subject for me to talk about. I have daily emotional struggles with this. I hope this helps someone else. As you may know we are a blended family.  I have raised Gavin since he was 15 months. I'm the only father he has ever really known. I never really looked at Gavin any different then my own kids.  The unpleasant truth for me is that it is different. I love Gavin, I always have and I always will. However, there is something different on a very basic human level.  I was there from the beginning with Elliott Richard and Emmett John. I heard their heart beat for the first time and I cried. When I saw them for the first time during the ultrasounds…