Last weekend was very bad | Autism PDD

Tammy

Last weekend was the worst I have ever seen with Jeffrey.  And he is generally a nice kid.  Nothing worked and I mean nothing worked with him at all.  I couldn't turn my back on him for a few seconds.  He threw things out in the hall at the business.  I mean plastic caps from bottles.  Of course as I am trying to redirect him they have to knock on my door.  But in all honesty they do bring some of that on themselves.  He was so out of control.  Throwing things at me.  Cussing me out one second, laughing hysterically the next.  Bribery got me nowhere.  Redirecting sure didn't work.  I think this all occurred on last Saturday.  Because on Sunday I had called his neuro at home.  Yes she gave me her home phone number.  Well on Monday Jeffrey was back to his normal nice self.  So I called her secretary.  She told me she was on vacation until the 23rd of June.  I figured this because she generally calls me right back.  So the neuro covering for her would call me back. 

Okay later in the week we were in the living room watching tv.  I hear this big crash.  Sounded like someone threw something at the window in the kitchen.  I automatically look at Gabe because lets face it, if something like that happens, it is generally Gabe.  Gabe looks at me and says "don't look at me I didn't do anything!!!"

Yesterday I was washing clothes at the laundry mat and who do I happen to run into but Mr. Creepy

Around 4 p.m. yesterday the neuro finally calls me back.  Lets just say I am glad I stuck with the one I have.  Now I know you shouldn't go with impressions on the phone but her voice came off as a rich snob type.  Anyway I briefly explain to her what is going on with Jeffrey.  And I do tell her that he is taking all of his meds.  She asks if he was threatening towards me or Gabe.  I told her he had picked up a pair of scizzors like he was going to throw them at me but I quickly took them away.  She said the next time he does that , in the behaviours like this, to take him into Fairview Riverside.  They have a peds psychology e.r. unit for cases like this.  They are better able to handle him than his normal hospital at HCMC, which generally just deals with adults.  That is no big deal, other than can't call 911 for that because they will take him to HCMC.  She then looked at his meds chart and sees the depakote is in the acceptable range but there is still room to play with.  I asked her if increasing his zoloft would help and she said not with that.  Now she did mention that he might need to be put on risperdal.  He has not been on this med yet. 

Don't ask me why I asked this question but I explained to her that sometimes during that weekend you could be right in front of Jeffrey, looking him straight in the eye, and he wasn't even looking at you.  His eyes was glazed in a sense, like he was looking straight thru you.  I asked her if this could be some form of seizure, not that I had read anything on this, you know having behaviour like that associated with a seizure.  And she said yes it could be.  I also briefly explained to her that my brother has bipolar.  But his symptoms are grandiose and very delusional thinking.  I briefly explained that their neuro told me that with Gabe I would have to watch for that as he got older.  So I asked her if this could be bipolar symptoms in Jeffrey and she yes it could be.  She told me that depakote is given to some bipolar patients. 

She told me to keep a diary of his behaviour.  That if something like this occurs in the next two weeks, lol, she would be on vacation, but to call their neuro's secretary and there would be another neuro covering.  She also said she didn't want to mess with any of his meds until his regular neuro came back.  Which I understand that.

Okay so yesterday when Metro gets here, Jeffrey gets on it just fine.  But does Gabe?  NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Throws another fit like you wouldn't believe.  I tried everything, short of calling 911.  But 911 wouldn't had done anything anyway.  I told him that his respite worker was going to take him swimming.  He told me he didn't want to go swimming over there.  "You wanna know why?  Because there are camels in the swimming pool over there!!!!" he said. 

So if any of you see any camels in any swimming pools this summer, those are Gabe's camels

Tammy

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