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We need to get caught up

I've been slacking in the update department recently and it's just because I'm struggling a bit still with the whole Paxil thing. It should be getting better in time, as most people feel better within a few weeks of stopping Paxil completely. For this particular update, I'm going to jump back in time a bit and revisit Wednesday night. Wednesday night found me both feeling and acting like a bad parent. I wasn't feeling well and had no patience. Both Elliott and Emmett were at each other's throats over somewhat petty things and I couldn't take it anymore. I lost my cool, raised my voice and may even have let a curse word fly as well. Not one of my prouder moments at all. I had to walk away because…

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March 23, 2018

My thoughts

It’s been a really rough day and I’m praying for a better one tomorrow

As a special needs family, we are no stranger to bad days. Even our best days are exceptionally challenging. Today was not a good day for about a million reasons and I barely survived it. I'm hoping that things are better today and I can get us moving forward once again. I'll try and catch everyone up later on today when I'm feeling better. At the moment, I'm going to crash for the night because I'm physically and emotionally exhausted. I'm praying for a better day..

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March 22, 2018

Getting kicked in the ass by withdrawal symptoms again

The last day or so, I've been feeling better. Tomorrow makes two full weeks since I took my last dose of Paxil. It's been a mixed bag of absolute misery and somewhat survivable. Yesterday I was doing really well and thought I was finally at the tail end of this shit but I was wrong. I've been struggling with emotions today and feeling nauseated. I don't want to eat anything or even think about eating anything. I was supposed to see my doctor on Tuesday but that got bumped because Emmett needed to see his pediatrician. Like I said, I was feeling better and I thought I was past it. With any luck, this is just a minor setback...

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March 21, 2018

Emmett John / My thoughts

Emmett returned to school this morning

Just a quick update to share that Emmett made it back to school today. He missed all last week, as well as Monday and Tuesday of this week due to tummy aches. He's feeling better today and was super excited to return. It's easy to assume that Emmett is trying to manipulate his way out of school by claiming tummy aches. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Not a single person who actually knows Emmett in real life thinks that's what's happening. Emmett loves school and hates when he misses. At the same time, he's been miserable enough that he wanted to stay home and rest. He was really happy to be back today and frankly, we were happy to send him. There was talk of there being a…

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March 21, 2018

Read more about the article I’ll never understand the postal service

I'll never understand the postal service. Rather than put this item with the rest of the oversized items that are sent to my PO Box, they decided to destroy it instead by cramming into the tiny square box that was way too small... Good thing there wasn't anything important in there.....but there was...

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I’ll never understand the postal service

I'll never understand the postal service. Rather than put this item with the rest of the oversized items that are sent to my PO Box, they decided to destroy it instead by cramming into the tiny square box that was way too small... Good thing there wasn't anything important in there.....but unfortunately there was... 😡

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March 21, 2018

Announcements / My thoughts

You can attack me but my family is OFF LIMITS

It's not that often that I must make a public statement in regards to being attacked. As you are aware, I've had a Facebook stalker for quite some time. I know who this person is but can't prove anything on my end. Facebook would be able to prove it if there was actually recourse for being harassed in this manner. Since my Facebook profile has been verified, I haven't had any issues with my posts being reported and my url blocked. Unfortunately, this person has now moved onto harassing my wife. Lizze runs her own blog at www.themamaspace.com... At some point last night, her url became blacklisted or blocked by Facebook, because it's been reported as violating Facebook's community guidelines. This is the same thing that I've been battling since…

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March 21, 2018

Emmett John / My thoughts

It all happens at noon today

It's already been a hectic morning but I did receive the call I've been waiting on from Emmett's pediatrician. The long and short of things is that Emmett will be seen at noon today. Lizze and I dropping Gavin off with my Mom on the way. We can't risk exposing Gavin to whatever bugs are floating around the pediatrician's office. Hopefully, we'll learn some ways of helping him to feel better. I can see us getting a referral to Gastroenterology, which wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't know how excited Emmett's going to be about going to the doctors but there's no choice st this point. He's missing way too much school and besides that, he's absolutely miserable. I'm looking forward to this appointment because I really worry about…

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March 20, 2018

Emmett John / My thoughts / School

He’s NOT faking this

Emmett isn't feeling well again this morning and rather than encourage him to go to school and at least try to see if he'll feel better, we're keeping him home. The main reason we're keeping him home is because we'd have to pull him out anyway for his appointment this morning. I don't know what time his appointment is because I haven't heard back yet but I'm supposed to hear something within the next hour. As I mentioned previously, I'm at a loss with the situation. Emmett is not making this up and he's truly miserable. To the absolute best of my knowledge, he's not trying to get out of going to school either. No one who knows him thinks that at all. I just wish we could figure out…

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March 20, 2018