MBP - oh hon..what a weight to be lifted of your shoulders! Finally you know that you will ge the help you need.
Christy - hon.....yes itsone of those times in this house atm too....I have a super arrogant little so and so who had me so angry within 1/2 an hour of him bieng home that I got a head ache and started ranting like a fish wife. I hate it.....I hate when I jsut feel like going out the fornt doo rand not coming back . I hate that when you tell others they say...get some respite..yeah right so he can be a turd for 3 days after he comes home..i think NOT!
Sarah - oh no he's a runner..shiat that would just freak me out. Wilhelm has a little calculator here somewere that he takes to bed too......he went througha stage of putting a toy gun under his pillow cause 'they were going to get him' use to freak me out but if he couldnt find it he would hit himself in the head over and over.
Does anyone else find that the day before their kid gets sick they play up really badly? Wilhelm is just horrible 24 hours before hand......IM a *****, he hates me, Im fired, talk to the hand, im fat, im ugly its like he's a different person
Frantic.... that is the pace M is at today. Frantic... I even made up a song about it this morning.
"No need to get frantic, to get frantic, to get frantic. No need to get frantic, its all okay."
I just can't seem to calm her down. I can't get her to breathe, I can't get her to be squashed.... brushed, compressions. I just see her on a one track way to meltdown land. She's had a frantic week, but today is bad. I just got her in a competition to see who could blow the longest, but its not helping, it turned into something to get frustrated over....
She's been obsessive about lollies and juice for the past week. Enough that we've had 3 massive meltdowns over the fact that I don't have lollies in my bag. Or that we don't have juice in our house. Things that we don't have at that time, or don't usually have. I never have lollies in my bag, I mean if I had lollies, I'd eat them all!!! I went to pick her up from school and she started screaming as soon as she saw me that she wanted a lolly. Then she wanted an ice block or juice. None of which were available at that time. So there was nothing I could do. She ran into the street screaming and laid on the ground. Then she came in with me (I was there to do teaching) and I wound up having to leave 20 minutes later with her kicking and screaming under my arm. My back went out.
Christy. I hope that it didn't escalate. You are so amazing with the way you cope with it all.
Tomorrow is supposed to be the start of the assessment process for us. J vomitted when he got to kindy this morning so is home sick today. I'm just hoping he's ok to go to the appointments tomorrow (paed and audiologist) as we really need some answers atm. After posting that some things have improved the other day, I have had to face the reality in the last few days that they really haven't. Toiletting has gone backwards again, and now we are facing a battle with kindy about his nose. And the kindy teacher got MIL on side this morning and now she's trying to tell us we are not doing enough - I am so angry. The issue is that he won't blow his nose when he needs to and the other kids are not wanting to go near him. The teacher thinks the solution is to insist that a doctor give us abs to clear up the nose. I totally disagree. Last time this happened I relented and after 4 weeks took him to the doctor for abs which didn't help at all. I can't give him abs everytime his nose runs FFS and more often than not it won't help anyway. The runny nose isn't the issue anyway - it's the behaviour, which is related to his other behavioural issues which we are getting him assessed for and she knows it. Why can't people understand that not all kids are the same and there isn't always a magic pill.
Did I mention that I am so angry? DH hung up on MIL earlier when she was going on about all the things we are doing wrong so it will be fun picking J up from their place later. I really admire you all for the way you cope with all the challenges in your lives. You are all truly amazing and special people.
oh Mel your MIL is definately a mixed blessing thats for sure... .my MIL is pretty similar actually. She underminds Pete all the time and me, but I don't let her....
We don't cope all the time. Today I didn't.... M was frantic still and I took her to the OT and explained how horrible the last week was. She said "Its going to be a tough few weeks for you, but what we need to do is x, y, z" and I left and sat in the car and cried and cried. I just don't know if I have the strength to keep on for a few weeks. Both Pete and I are exhausted and yet we just have to cope.... not just cope, we have to be uber strong and able to be in control and help her.
I know we will get through it, I know its a matter of time and consistency, but I just don't know how its going to happen.
I know Mel, knowing I have support is amazing. I know that I'm not judged here which is fantastic.
I came home from OT a mess, and I think the girls picked up on it because they were pretty crazy but funny at the same time. The minute Pete got home, Matilda exploded again though. The OT has said the main thing we do differently over the next 7 days is have a NO SUGAR policy. So no lollies, juice, etc etc etc.... Now I'm pretty strict about food, and I really have a whole foods policy, so we don't have heaps of lollies in the house or anywhere. Matilda's been cracking it over sugar so the OT has said that M is using it to keep her in the frenzied state and we need to take it out of the equation.
So far she found a hidden barley sugar when she got home but now there is no sugar in the house. So we will have the withdrawals to go through next.... joy.
hon.....yes itsone of those times in this house atm too....I have a super arrogant little so and so who had me so angry within 1/2 an hour of him bieng home that I got a head ache and started ranting like a fish wife. I hate it.....I hate when I jsut feel like going out the fornt doo rand not coming back
. I hate that when you tell others they say...get some respite..yeah right so he can be a turd for 3 days after he comes home..i think NOT!
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