Build Tomorrow - Another Day Of Life

Yesterday was a busy day. Have you ever had one of those days that seemed like every time you got something accomplished 10 other things popped up? Such is life I guess. My wife had a meeting with the school yesterday, which was the first one I didn’t attend, and it unfortunately did not go well. The school always seems more concerned on the next step or how quick can we move forward, not the well being of our son. It can be extremely frustrating. I know it’s frustrating for them as educators, but at the same time they do not seem to realize it can be multiplied by 1000 for the parents. Many things in our family life are put on hold, and are dreams for another day, my wife can’t work, and we have built our 52K debt load trying to find ways to help him succeed.
So they asked that he attend an “Extended School Year” of 10 hours a week for July and half of August. While we think that it will be a good resource to continue his adjustment to the school building, and the school, it becomes a fine line between helping him and punishing him for his disease. It sometime amazes me how little metal disorders are acknowledged even today. While John is a typical 12 year old in many ways, and has the typical “tweener” (that’s what he call himself) behaviors, they are many aspects of his behavior he cannot control. That will come with his continued therapy. As his doctor explained, you take a vivid imagination such as his, and a fear of only bad outcomes, you have a constant fear of the other shoe dropping. And it’s always a fight for him to grow and gain independence, and the fear of that independence, and being alone. It’s a fear we all have sometimes, but his is 24/7. I have run across so many excellent blogs. One in particular I have been reading is Stressskills.net. It’s written by an author named “Help”. It has some excellent links to resources, and the author is a licensed professional.
Our other son Will is doing much better with his strep. He is on a much stronger antibiotic which is a battle to have him take twice a day, you would think we are asking him to take poison, but he is definitely the actor of the household. I am now up to $0.66 in on-line earnings, which leaves $51,999.34 left to raise. I have also run across some excellent blog and site resources to help folks looking to raise money. Make Money on-line is already listed on the blogs I read, and I have a more to add.
I hope to let my “fingers do some talking” a bit more later. Hope you’ll come back later.
~Another Day

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