Monday april 10 2005

The camera wouldn't work. So the little time I had to go to the sign of our town went by.

Thami and Nyo were home early, because they have a kind of awareness week.
Today it was about drugs.
They both said it was boring and they knew everything already.
Bet they knew.
I've always tried to be as open and clear about the subject as possible.

Mailed Nyo's teacher again that he can't go to the museum on his own. That we tried everything, but that Jim wasn't granted a free day, and we have none available to go with Nyo.
I hoped he would call or mail back that Nyo could go with him in his car.
But we heard nothing.

Just when I was cooking Nyo presented with all the signs of a food allergy.
I gave him an allergy tablet and had him take a good shower. It hardly helped.
So when Jim came home, he had dinner and then they both went to hospital.
We have an ER not too far away., but the phycisians post is almost unreachable in the evening when one hasn't a car.
I expected the ER to act difficult, but they didn't at all.
I guess they are used to people from our part of town coming to them.

My diagnosis was right. Nyo got another kind of allergy tablets (The ones that make me sleep for two days at length. LOL!)

I monitored him when he was asleep, untill the symptoms got less and he didnt seem to be drowsy anymore.

Tomorrow I have to make space on the attic for the heating repair men.
I always have all sorts of little things on the stairs to prevent children from going upstairs there, and the attic......
It's an absolute mess, because I was rearranging things there, but because there is so little time, it seems to be a mess forever.
Tomorrow I'll take the chance to get things downstairs.
That way those men have enough space, and I can rearrange far better.
The kids won't like it, because some of the boxes will be at their room for at least a day.
Well... they have to cope with it.
I'll also change winter and summer clothes, even though it's freezing at night.
I just take the chance. Saves some time later.

Now let's hope the headache goes away and stays away for a couple of days.

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Friday april 7 2005

Back online after being ill.
I just don't know where to begin.

When opening the email the one on top was from Lizzie.
She has send me some wonderful gifts and got me in tears.
Thanks hun, and thanks all others for the welcomes.

Next days I'll be bussy with: Lord Buggie
Tattling Tidbits
my groups,
eastergifts
and all the other things.

Nyo, who is autistic, got therapy these last months and yesterday I had the final meeting with his case manager.
The therapist was trying to teach him to comb his hair every morning.

You know, kids go to school. That's about an hour by bycicle here.
Nyo had therapy sessions right out of school, so cap on his head, and when arriving, cap off... forgetting the hair stands straight up after that. LOL!

Combing in the morning doesn't help that.
Combing right at that moment does.

So the therapist and the case manager concluded he couldn't be taught that.
He managed to get a grip on his anger though... with the help of meds and therapy.
I think they conveniently forgot that.

I was told therapy was about to finish.
They had reached his limit.

They also thought I was expecting far too much from him.

I didn't say much. I'm fed up with the socalled professionals. (I'm one too, so I'm allowed to say so. LOL!)
I taught him how to look people in the eye, how to smile, have little talks with them.
Taught him to go to school by bycicle. Solve little problems (That are big to him), and a lot more.
So I left there with a silly feeling.
When I was there for the second time, they complimented me with how much he had been taught, and this time I was told he was not able to be taught some simple routines.

I guess it was their last attempt to get us into a new kind of support. Think it's experimental.
I told him that and he said: "Oh...so she wanted to teach me to comb my hair when meeting with her? She should have said so. You should have seen that big smile!!! LOL!

Next week will be very stressing for him as they won't have a normal schedule at school, but a kind of awareness week. Lessons about drugs, alcohol, nicotine and such. They'll visit a freedom/war museum and he'll be home a day, because the group goes swimming and he can't manage to swim and pay attention at the same time.

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