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My thoughts / Sleep Issues

No sleep makes everything more difficult

It was a rough night, filled with no sleep. I had a terrible time sleeping because my allergies were bad. It's like as soon as I lay down, I get congested. Shortly after I managed to fall asleep, Emmett came into our room after having another nightmare. Once I woke up, I was pretty much done because I was too congested to fall back asleep again. I was lucky to have fallen asleep the first time and not lucky enough to fall asleep a second time. It's going to be one of those days where I come home from taking the kids to school and crash for a few hours. I'm so fricking exhausted right now and Lizze isn't any better off. She's been battling insomnia lately and not sleeping…

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May 2, 2018
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Emmett John / Everyday Life Lessons / My thoughts

Doing the best we can in a difficult situation

After therapy tonight, Emmett and I hit the store to pick up some groceries. Taking Emmett can sometimes be challenging because of how he views the world in such a literal way. I always try to take advantage of teachable moments and grocery shopping is one such moment. We're not even close to being financially independent but we're no longer on food stamps and that feels amazing. That said, we're on a tight budget and need to make it stretch as far as we can. I'm using the concept to teach Emmett about maintaining a budget. When we go grocery shopping, I give him a number that we need to stay under. Today for example, I had a $200 budget for groceries and I had him bring his tablet so…

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May 2, 2018
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Emmett John / Family Therapy / My thoughts

It’s just the 2 of us

Lizze is staying home with Elliott tonight cause he's not been feeling well. Emmett and I are off to see Dr. Pattie. I left Gavin at home because honestly, I need a break from him today. I'll talk more about that later. Emmett and ran an errand before heading to therapy but it was really nice spending time with just him... ☺

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May 1, 2018
Read more about the article Elliott’s absolutely miserable
Elliott / My thoughts

Elliott’s absolutely miserable

Poor Elliott has been up all night because he's not feeling well. We're suspecting Strep throat but we're going to see how he's doing today before taking him in. His throat began hurting yesterday evening and it's progressively gotten worse. He's running a lower grade fever but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because we believe he has the same fever disorder Emmett has. He's almost always running at least a low-grade fever. Hopefully, he feels better as the day goes on. Please keep Elliott in your thoughts today, he's truly miserable..

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May 1, 2018
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Announcements / My thoughts

How it all began

It's been a great day and I'm going to bed tonight, feeling extremely accomplished.. ☺ I have spent a great deal of time, working on something very important to me and I hope you'll find it interesting as well. I have successfully merged over 7,000 posts from Lost and Tired, dating all the way back to January, 2010. That's where it all began. Our complete story is now accessible on this blog. You can click here, to begin reading from the very beginning. In my tenur, I've written and published over 11,000 posts and articles. Putting this together was a monumental undertaking, partly because of the enormous database but also because it was incredibly tedious. I will say that there is a gap between June of 2014 and August of…

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April 30, 2018
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Fabulous morning

It's been a good morning here in The Autism Dad household. The boys got off to school without an trouble and I even got in a morning walk. It's 35°F but it didn't feel that way at all. The sun is out and it's truly a gorgeous start to the week. I'm hoping this will help to ensure we all get off the right foot this week. I wish we had more mornings like this.. ☺ Oh... On a side note, I've lost another .2 lbs at today's weigh-in. That takes me to a grand total of 13.9 lbs in the last two months. ☺

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April 30, 2018
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Depression Management / My thoughts

I’m suddenly not feeling well

All of a sudden, I've started not feeling well. It's not really anything new and it's probably still the Paxil related stuff because it still is impacting me. On one hand, it sucks to feel like this all the time. On the other hand, things do seem to be getting better, albeit slowly. I simply need some down time to regroup and work through the nausea. I also need to seriously pound some water and make sure I'm properly hydrated. At this point, I'm miserable but I'm so incredibly grateful to have made it this far. I'm working through this and truly hope to keep making progress until I come out the other end of this tunnel. I'm still not anti-medication and I still recognize how important these types of…

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April 29, 2018