This song has been in my head a lot lately...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX6Rvd831c
I think that it's because of the line "and all the crying you wouldn't understand..." because, although we had a good visit with the psychiatrist, Sweet Pea is still sad a lot of the time.
Our appointment for Sweet Pea with my psychiatrist went well. I really like him and was glad that I knew him and wasn't having to get to know a doctor during the appointment as well. His assessment of Sweet Pea is that she has ADD. To brag a little, in his opinion she is bright to the point of being gifted. He classified her ADD as the "absentminded professor" type.
We are taking a "wait and see" approach with drugs for right now. The doctor recommended a child psychologist that can help with exercises to help Sweet Pea's concentration and also help to build up her self esteem. The Husband is frustrated with this. He was really hoping for a quick fix. He also doesn't see the value in therapy. He did get along with my doctor better than I thought that he would.
I am okay with waiting on medication. I know that it's not the same, but my drugs have done some pretty nasty things to my body and I hate the idea of giving drugs like that to Sweet Pea. The doctor did say that if we were to go the medication route, he would recommend Intuniv, which is a newer drug and one of the only (if not the only) non-stimulants for ADD. I looked the drug up and on their website one of the first things that it says is "we don't understand how Intuniv works on the brain." That's what is says about all my drugs too. I worry about the long term effects of my drugs and I didn't start taking them until I was 32.
We are going to do one medical test on Sweet Pea. We are going to get an EEG to rule out Absanse Seizures. This is a type of epilepsy where you have seizures that look like you are "spacing off." It is frequently misdiagnosed as ADD and our doctor said that he's seen two little girls recently that had this seizure disorder when the parents and teachers were sure that it was ADD. I've read about Absanse Seizures and it doesn't sound like Sweet Pea--the seizures are very brief (usually only lasting 20 seconds) and a person can experience up to 100 per day. Sweet Pea spaces out for many minutes at a time and this will happen maybe 4-5 times per day. We will still go ahead with the EEG, just to be safe, though.
I am hoping that we can get into a psychologist soon, so that she can get as much help as possible over the summer. I worry about how much she beats herself up about her school work. That trait comes from the Husband, as I am not that much of a perfectionist.
For some good news... I've been able to sleep without sleeping pills for almost a week now. (I know that doesn't seem like much, but it means that things are trending in the right direction and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.)
I've also examined the letter from the IRS more carefully and it looks like they are seeing income that we had in 2009, but no withholding on it. I need to call the IRS and see what we need to do, but it looks better than it did after my first reading of the letter.
Also, R's husband got out of the hospital on Thursday. He still has three chest tubes in, but the leak in his new esophagus is now small enough that his doctor's feel that it will close on its own.
I'm still kind of bummed out about "Ragtime, though. Hopefully next summer will be a good musical too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX6Rvd831c
I think that it's because of the line "and all the crying you wouldn't understand..." because, although we had a good visit with the psychiatrist, Sweet Pea is still sad a lot of the time.
Our appointment for Sweet Pea with my psychiatrist went well. I really like him and was glad that I knew him and wasn't having to get to know a doctor during the appointment as well. His assessment of Sweet Pea is that she has ADD. To brag a little, in his opinion she is bright to the point of being gifted. He classified her ADD as the "absentminded professor" type.
We are taking a "wait and see" approach with drugs for right now. The doctor recommended a child psychologist that can help with exercises to help Sweet Pea's concentration and also help to build up her self esteem. The Husband is frustrated with this. He was really hoping for a quick fix. He also doesn't see the value in therapy. He did get along with my doctor better than I thought that he would.
I am okay with waiting on medication. I know that it's not the same, but my drugs have done some pretty nasty things to my body and I hate the idea of giving drugs like that to Sweet Pea. The doctor did say that if we were to go the medication route, he would recommend Intuniv, which is a newer drug and one of the only (if not the only) non-stimulants for ADD. I looked the drug up and on their website one of the first things that it says is "we don't understand how Intuniv works on the brain." That's what is says about all my drugs too. I worry about the long term effects of my drugs and I didn't start taking them until I was 32.
We are going to do one medical test on Sweet Pea. We are going to get an EEG to rule out Absanse Seizures. This is a type of epilepsy where you have seizures that look like you are "spacing off." It is frequently misdiagnosed as ADD and our doctor said that he's seen two little girls recently that had this seizure disorder when the parents and teachers were sure that it was ADD. I've read about Absanse Seizures and it doesn't sound like Sweet Pea--the seizures are very brief (usually only lasting 20 seconds) and a person can experience up to 100 per day. Sweet Pea spaces out for many minutes at a time and this will happen maybe 4-5 times per day. We will still go ahead with the EEG, just to be safe, though.
I am hoping that we can get into a psychologist soon, so that she can get as much help as possible over the summer. I worry about how much she beats herself up about her school work. That trait comes from the Husband, as I am not that much of a perfectionist.
For some good news... I've been able to sleep without sleeping pills for almost a week now. (I know that doesn't seem like much, but it means that things are trending in the right direction and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.)
I've also examined the letter from the IRS more carefully and it looks like they are seeing income that we had in 2009, but no withholding on it. I need to call the IRS and see what we need to do, but it looks better than it did after my first reading of the letter.
Also, R's husband got out of the hospital on Thursday. He still has three chest tubes in, but the leak in his new esophagus is now small enough that his doctor's feel that it will close on its own.
I'm still kind of bummed out about "Ragtime, though. Hopefully next summer will be a good musical too.
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