Did you ever have one of those days? I am in the middle of one! Let's see...I was awoken by my house alarm seemingly resetting itself at 4:30 am. It stopped, my husband and I went back to sleep, and then it did it again at 5:00. Bleary eyed I crawled out of bed at 6:30 and managed to get the boys to school (lecturing them the whole way there about how to behave, and praying they would listen). In the parking lot, as I was backing out, I hit the car next to me (the spaces are very narrow, and I have a big car). I tried to adjust myself, but only managed to make it worse, dragging my bumper along the length of the car and leaving a HUGE scratch. I left the scene because I thought it was my friend's car that I had hit. I called her immediately, only to find out it wasn't her car after all! Thankfully she left a note for me. Sadly, this had happened to the owner of the car before, and she was none too happy about it. After dealing with that, the kids came out to carpool. Dylan had wet his pants. This is a child with the vocabulary of a fifth grader, but god forbid he say "I have to go potty"! On top of that, a friend of mine let me know that the class the boys are in is insane. The teacher has very little control. That doesn't bode well for Jake. He can follow directions like a champ, but if he sees someone causing trouble, he loves to be right there with them, and god knows there is plenty of trouble in that group of kids for him to jump in on. When Jake got in the car and I asked him how he had behaved today, he let me know that he had been fooling around with his friends. Gee...thanks Jacob!
So now I am exhausted. I have to email their teacher to see how they were (as if I didn't know) because I may send Jake's behavioral therapist back in for a day to check on him. I will clearly also have her spy for me to see if the room is in chaos, or if today was just a rough day.
Meanwhile, I am second guessing medicine again, but I have managed to solve a mystery. Jake used to drool A LOT. When we took him off of the Behavior Balance Liquid and the Liquid Carnosine plus, it stopped. Clearly it was one of the two, but I still wasn't sure which one. Jake went back on the Behavior Balance Liquid first, but there was no drooling. Then I added the Liquid Carnosine Plus in again at a lower dose, but still no drooling. I upped the dose two days ago, and voila, drool city. Lots of jumping and flapping too. I hate to bump it down again (he had been doing really well at this dose previously, and I was hoping it would make his bowel movements more firm...gross...I know), but it might be worth lowering the dose. If it will calm him down and stop the waterworks, I may need to go for it.
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