doctor responsible for MMR-autism hoax will soon find out if he'll be punishedI hope they smack him down so far he has to take the stairs to tie his shoelaces. From everything I've heard there were so many ethical violations in this - he paid the kids five pounds each for their blood samples at his kid's birthday party, never disclosed this fact, ( Read more... )

Today: Sean actually SAID 'all done'. Well, it was 'all', but contextually he meant 'all done'. He said it. Like, used a word. A new word.

And he is awesome at putting puzzles together. Even a puzzle he's never encountered before.

Good: Seaners is coming home tomorrow! Seaners is (largely) back to his old self! Chris went to visit yesterday (I was feeling awful, I still feel pretty rotten) and he wanted to play and take him on a tour of the unit and so on until the pain meds wore off ( Read more... )

Seaners will be staying in-unit until (at least) Tuesday. The sleep meds are still not working as well as hoped, and they still require adjusting. (I am not surprised. My boy has had trouble sleeping since pretty much day one.) Since lack of sleep is the single biggest trigger for the meltdowns, it only makes sense to keep him there, especially ( Read more... )

(copied from an email, so this may be a repeat for some ( Read more... )

i am home. he is officially admitted now. sean is fine (as "fine" as anyone can really be when you can still be inpatient psych). I am having random uncontrollable crying jags and everything is starting to hit me very, very hard right through the chest ( Read more... )

he had five meltdowns today (two more at the hospital). His aide is a goddess. I have got to get her something wonderful. She stayed with us all the way through ( Read more... )

we had a good couple of days. then he woke up in the middle of the night with meltdown, which segued into morning meltdown, which segued into at-school meltdown (the first) which they are sending home from. (this is his classroom teacher, not the nurse. his classroom teacher has a good head on her shoulders. i fully believe her ( Read more... )

thanks to bkwrrm_tx, mactavish, nightdog_barks, reannon and tsuki_no_bara

donations needed after fire in texas animal shelter might be a good idea to send this one on.

music makes the difference excellent article about music therapy for disabled and autistic kids - and as a bonus, that's reannon's mother in the article! i wish we lived closer. i'd love to find someone like that to work with Sean. i ( Read more... )

so the child (my son) decided for reasons unknown that the best place for the plastic nozzle from my sunscreen was not, in fact, on my sunscreen - it was inside a square purple toothbrush case that was roughly 3/4" by 2/3" inside and four or so inches long ( Read more... )