Post by sarcaztic10 on Mar 2, 2017 9:21:53 GMT -5
It's been crazy the past couple weeks.
L is on a new medicine. We stopped the last one after he started having some pretty dark thoughts and he also lost almost 2 lbs in a month from just the loss of appetite. Last week he wasn't on any meds for 2 days at school and those 2 days were awful with the teacher basically at her wits end. So we know he needs help and the medicine does that.
Now that L is on the new med I think I see a change in his behavior but his teacher has been out sick all week so I have no clue how he is doing in school. One of the initial side effects of the medicine is drowsiness and L has been super tired on it to the point that earlier in the week he was falling asleep for the day at 5:30 pm. This is a non-stimulant med though so his appetite is back and his mood is overall a lot better so I am trying to stay positive.
He is also starting karate 2x a week here in a week or so. The place expects you to basically put a large down payment on reserving lessons for the whole year so we are gathering the money.
Which leads in to how I am doing. I am exhausted from working 50+ hours a week and I really wanted to use some of that money to get myself something fun but instead it is going to pay for karate and for us to go on vacation at the end of this month.
L's birthday is 1/3 so it's kind of an awful time to have a big party or a Nguyen a bunch of friends to something. It's on Christmas break just after 2 holidays and school starts again in a couple days. We usually do a family party with just us and when he is older we will allow a couple friends over for the night.
L is on a new medicine. We stopped the last one after he started having some pretty dark thoughts and he also lost almost 2 lbs in a month from just the loss of appetite. Last week he wasn't on any meds for 2 days at school and those 2 days were awful with the teacher basically at her wits end. So we know he needs help and the medicine does that.
Now that L is on the new med I think I see a change in his behavior but his teacher has been out sick all week so I have no clue how he is doing in school. One of the initial side effects of the medicine is drowsiness and L has been super tired on it to the point that earlier in the week he was falling asleep for the day at 5:30 pm. This is a non-stimulant med though so his appetite is back and his mood is overall a lot better so I am trying to stay positive.
He is also starting karate 2x a week here in a week or so. The place expects you to basically put a large down payment on reserving lessons for the whole year so we are gathering the money.
Which leads in to how I am doing. I am exhausted from working 50+ hours a week and I really wanted to use some of that money to get myself something fun but instead it is going to pay for karate and for us to go on vacation at the end of this month.
L's birthday is 1/3 so it's kind of an awful time to have a big party or a Nguyen a bunch of friends to something. It's on Christmas break just after 2 holidays and school starts again in a couple days. We usually do a family party with just us and when he is older we will allow a couple friends over for the night.
