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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nIt was the one month appointment to assess how Jeremy is doing with the medicine change. We actually made it on time, although JUST….stupid traffic. What is up with that? It took a solid hour and half to get in….so annoying.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t the best appointment that we’ve ever had, but neither was it the worst.<\/p>\n
The hardest part of it was that we had to bring the two little boys with us because I forgot to get a sitter. Yah, I remembered at 11pm on Tuesday night that I needed someone to watch the boys. Things have been a bit nuts around here and we’ve recently had some stressful changes in our lives (more on that a bit later<\/em>) and with all the stress….I just forgot.<\/p>\n A curious one year old and a busy 4 year old do not allow for great conversation. We did manage to talk through a few things and basically the long and the short of it is that the Dr. is increasing Jeremy’s meds….both the Vyvanse<\/a> and the Risperidone<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over this past month, we have seen some small changes but not what the psychologist has said that she expects to see when we have the correct dosages for Jeremy. When he initially started taking the Respiridone, he was falling asleep easily, sleeping soundly, and waking refreshed. In the past week and half, we noticed that he was unable to fall asleep and it was looking more and more like it used to….the most unsettling part of that was how upset Jeremy was to not be able to get to sleep. We’ve not noticed that he’s had any great and amazing focus or attention benefits either…..<\/p>\n We’ve noticed small changes, like the odd time when he thinks of others outside of himself, or when he notices that something he is doing is inappropriate and makes an attempt to modify his behaviour. It’s only happened a handful of times over the past month but even 4-5 times is better than never, no?<\/p>\n He’s also gained more than 5 pounds over the past month and is eating EVERYTHING in sight. As annoying it is to hear him constantly asking for food, it’s also been very nice because I feel like he is actually being nourished instead of on the brink of starvation. <\/p>\n It’s been a good month for Jeremy and we are hoping for an even better month in November with this medicine adjustment.<\/p>\n This is not an easy road, but man, is he a sweet kid. He is growing up to be such an amazing young man and we love him so much. He will be a great success in his life, of this we have NO DOUBT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had another meeting with the psychologist at the ADHD Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital yesterday. It was the one month appointment to assess how Jeremy is doing with the medicine change. We actually made it on time, although JUST….stupid traffic. What is up with that? It took a solid hour and half to get … Continue reading “One Month in….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addadhd","category-jeremy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}