My son!!!
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| Sat, 01-20-2007 - 7:52pm |
I left my home sometime after 12 yesterday to go to my therapist appt. 1 hour before my appt. i got a call from my son's school ( he is bipolar, ad/hd, odd, ocd). He didn't meet a goal that he had set for himself so he couldn't join in a ice cream party that the class was having. he turned 11 on jan. 7th. he is in a classroom support setting. He flipped over his desk and chair and was threatening to kill the other kids in his class on the way home. then he threatened to kill himself over the weekend. The school counselor told me it took 3 adults to restrain him.
I had my friend and her husband (both cops and very very close friends) pick him up from school because i was more than an hour away and they were 15 minutes away. so they met me at the hospital and because he told the dr.'s and nurses there exactly how he was going to kill himself he was admited to the hospital. by 10 pm last night he had been admitted but there were no beds av. in our state. so we spent the night in the ER. finally at 1 pm today he was transferred by ambo to another hospital. He is in the childrens physic ward. It tore me up to leave him there. we spent many hours talking last night about why he is the way he is and i explained to him that he had a chemical imbalance in his brain and the medicine that he takes helps to put them chemicals there. He said he hates god for making him this way and it isn't fair that he is the only one in our family who has it. I explained to him that he isn't the only one and i explained on his level that I have the same issues that he does. He climbed on my lap (he is a big kid ) and he hugged me and he told me thank you for telling me i don't feel so alone now. He kept crying off and on through the night because he knew he would have to spend a few days there (this isn't his first hospital stay). when my dh and i finally left the hospital today he told us to go ahead and go because he wanted to watch the movie that the other kids were watching. I called at 6pm and talked to him and he was very agitated. I was able to get him calmed down a bit and then i talked to the staff there and explained what he was so agitated about and they said they could fix the problem ( he didn't want to wear a hospital gown and i just couldn't drive that far tonight to take him clothes). so i'm waiting till 8:30 which is bed time to see how he is. It's going to be a very very long night and i know i'm not going to sleep well just knowing he is there and feeling so gulty about leaving him there when it is the last place on earth i would be.
Robin

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Well it seems to be an overall positive environment, even if he i taking his frustration out on toys instead of expressing it, but hopefully what you said made a difference. It seems like he values your opinion very much.
Continued positve thoughts coming your way.
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