I know the feeling. Admitting something odd here but I found after my DD's last two IEPS's I was organizing past IEPS and rereading things over and over. And then I wonder where OCD comes from [QUOTE=disneyluvnmama]
Anyway, after we are done I usually feel like, OK what do I do now?
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YEAH -- THAT feeling. I just cleaned almost my entire house!!! And you have no idea how rare THAT is ... and I am a nervous wreck over my ancient and ailing cat ... he is not really more ancient or ailing than he was before, it just feels worse, now. I have all this anxiety leftover from the IEP, and am looking for outlets, I guess.
Okay, laugh if you will. I did not call it depression ...
But, now the IEP is back to me, as of yesterday, I am feeling bummed. THERE IS NOTHING MORE I CAN DO to get her help through the school. It is so silly, this is a GREAT IEP. But Iworked so hard toward making sure we were getting it right. I focused for so long on it. Now it is summer and she is out for 10 weeks, started daycamp today but was acting sort of displaced/disoriented, and it made me so sad.
Am I alone in my whackiness?
No Foxl, I am consumed about what my son is going to do this summer as well.
Concernedpa.
I am not sure if this is the same feeling you have but after my daughter IEP's I just feel exhausted and wiped out. We have has a few bad IEP's but lately they have been better, if they can be better.
Anyway, after we are done I usually feel like, OK what do I do now?
[QUOTE=disneyluvnmama]I know the feeling. Admitting something odd here but I found after my DD's last two IEPS's I was organizing past IEPS and rereading things over and over. And then I wonder where OCD comes from
I think you are onto something, there! Ugh.
T weathered her first day at summer daycamp ... but she had a meltdown TODAY, after her much-tougher-than-last-class swimming lesson! Apparently it was MY FAULT that they accidentally served her meat at lunch (we're vegetarians). Even though they replaced it with something meatless ... I assured her it was an accident, it was the first day and they had a lot of kids ... She sure needed a good long nap after that, however.
I have to say I am so grateful to have a framework, an explanation for her being so upset. This was the first transition of any kind we got her through since diagnosis. But then I have always intuitively been supportive of her, fortunately.
LeAnn --- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! How SCARY.
Only yesterday, at 5:00 am, I was sitting on the bathroom floor in my ratty nightie, force-feeding my elderly cat Iams L/B. And wondering what anyone else would think ...
Bleach my teeth -- how about a lipo, and a boobjob, and a professional eyebrow job, and and and ... nevermind a cut and color!
Yes Linda, you are the only person on this entire message board that is whacky. We've been meaning to tell you!
The rest of us are cool as cucumbers, are wearing starched white shirts, and freshly pressed trousers. Our homes are immaculate, our refrigerators clean and well stocked. Our vehicles look (and smell) like they just came off the showroom floor. Our teeth - bright white and our hair, glossy. Collectively, we are gorgeous and have been approached by Vanity Fair to do next month's cover in whatever each of us is wearing this moment. Norway Mom is wearing a Donna Karan eggplant colored suit right now and Fred is sporting dove-gray Armani. What about you? Who did your hair?
Girl! Post IEP letdown or summer camp angst, we got it too! Now, go bleach your teeth - the photographers are on their way.