The other day we took our son to see a Behaviorist to get more help with his ADHD. Plus his primary doctor has also been mentioning something called Oppositional Defiant Disorder and I don’t really think he has that. Plus when I agreed to do medicine for his ADHD, I always said I wanted it to be monitored by a doctor who deals with this type of medicine all the time. I like my primary doc, but ADHD is not his specialty. It’s taken quite awhile to get in to this particular Behaviorist, but it was worth the wait.
When we got there, two docs came into the room and asked us a bunch of questions and observed Zachary while he played. Once they had all their questions answered, they brought in the doc we were there to see. She was GREAT. She watched him, talked to us, and her suggestions were spot on. Which I know a big thing I have to do is really train myself to focus on all the good things he does and really pump those up. Sure I have to discipline the negative, but sometimes, unfortunately, I tend to focus too much on the negative without really meaning to.
Another thing we told her was that we were concerned about his anger issues and fighting with his sister, his lack of appetite, and the fact that he cries and has meltdowns ALL.THE. TIME. She made the suggestion to try a new medicine. This one would be taken once a day and we have to open the pill up and sprinkle it on applesauce. I was a little leery to do that…but I figured I might as well give it a try. What did we have to lose? Besides our prescription co-pay.
Today was the first time he got the new medicine. We sprinkled it on cinnamon applesauce, which the medicine REALLY looks like sprinkles. I think he truly thought they were sprinkles hahaha. He told me, as he was eating the applesauce, that he was only eating that for breakfast. I said fine. I didn’t want any issues this morning when we were trying out the new medicine. 20 minutes go by and he comes back in the kitchen and asked for breakfast. This NEVER happens if he gets medicine first before eating! We were off to a good start. Lunch rolls around and he ate a TON. Again…so not how our day goes with food. Ever.
By lunch, I’ve also realized that not only have I not had any tears or meltdowns, but he has not fought with his sister at all. Hasn’t hit her, yelled at her, nothing. And believe me…she would have deserved to have gotten yelled at with the way she was behaving.
Our day was so great that at 3pm I decided to take the kids to the zoo for a few hours. We walked around, had fun, and when we made it back up front to play at the playscape, there was not a SINGLE meltdown when I had to tell Zack that the playground was closed.
Sure this is the first day…but I am ecstatic that it was such a good day!!! Not only was it a good day, but he also read a random sign at the zoo too! There were no pictures or anything to help him with what it said either! I heard him sound the whole thing out!!!
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