Copper Creek Chit Chat continued....

[Drottwiler]

I don't know..Someone splain co ops to me..

Who evers running it. Will open a feeler thread with the items and an estimated price. Usually for mods there is a mq of 50. Once they get enough people stating their interest they post in the active Co op thread. With the price including shipping custom fees. Then if everyone that showed interest fills out the order and they get to the Mq. Invoices are sent. once moneys collected the orders placed. Once it arrives to the person running the co op they pack everything and send it to the people in the co op.

 

[stretchpants]

Whoa whoa whoa....Don't be that WHAT IF parent... Your imagining all he dominoes falling.Deal with today...Think about maybe letting Alex get a GED...Don't start crying...If he hates school it is a way for him to graduate.It is accepted at colleges...I would discuss it with him and let him practice for it but it would have strings.You know best what the strings would be...College isn't for everyone.Tech schools may be a good alternative.Is he interested in computers? Tech stuff? My son Nick is doing quite well watching terrorists trying to break into U.S banking systems...He has a Masters degree but he got the job because he's a self taught techie...There are alternatives to traditional education...I'm sure there's one that he can excel in....When you have a special child like Alex you don't have to follow the leader.Find what he's good at and what he likes and build from there...I never ever in a million years thought Jimmy would go to college..He went because he got a Soccer Scholarship and a promise of being the starting goalie for the varsity team...He went to college to continue playing soccer....His senior year he played soccer to go to college...He had grown up..Find what he's confident in.That's the key..You can do this...No more "What If's" Do here and now....It will be O.K.

Vent Warning...
Morgan is fine now. She'll go back to school tomorrow. What happened in a nutshell was similar to the reaction she had a few months ago to a different med. The muscles in her face tightened and contracted. It's called an extrapyramidial reaction and is a rare reaction that happens with antipsychotic meds. When it happened a few months ago the hospital told me to give her benadryl if that ever happened again so that's what we did. We waited a while for it to kick in and it was only getting worse and she was in tears because the muscle contractions were so painful. We decided to go on and take her to the ER. We get on the interstate and she starts to have trouble breathing. We pulled off the next exit and called 911. Her airway was closing. They gave her more benadryl but most importantly, epinephrine. Off to the ER as origyninally planned and got home around 1230. This time they gave me an rx for an epi pen that I got filled today.

Homebound for Alex is going carppy. He has 600 excuses why he cant do an assignment. It's a fight to get anything done. Nothing works with him, not even bribery. Honestly my main concern at this point is this....we have done EVERYTHING plus MORE that the doctors told us to do when he was diagnosed at 5 years old. He is now a 16 year old junior in high school and I'm really afraid he's not gonna make it. I never cared what he wanted to do in life as long as he was happy and productive. Right now he is neither. Another year and a half and he'll graduate and there is no way at this point that he will be able to handle college or tech school, even part time online. If he can't work then what is there to do? What kind of life will he have? We won't always be here. We alwayls knew that it would take him longer to reach regular milestones but I'm afraid that this most important one willthe not happen....a happy productive life. I could always say that either you go to school or get a job when you graduate, pay rent or move out. I can't do that. There's no where for him to go except maybe a voluntary group home. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!,

I dug for info and begged for info and help on services that would benefit both kids. Neither kid qualifies for waivers that would help them financially later, and financially now for us to pay med expenses. I'm so frustrated with the whole dam system!!

/rant

 

[tlmoody27]

ok, one last thing. Most people call their mother for comfort, right? I should know better by now. I've screwed up something some where along the way undoubtedly. According to her I'm being manipulated. I should do this, or do that, etc. Now not only am I upset about the whole situation like before but now I just feel like crying.

 

[Drottwiler]

In Pa you could go the disability route.

 

[Drottwiler]

A good cry always helps me.

 

[tlmoody27]

Whoa whoa whoa....Don't be that WHAT IF parent... Your imagining all he dominoes falling.Deal with today...Think about maybe letting Alex get a GED...Don't start crying...If he hates school it is a way for him to graduate.It is accepted at colleges...I would discuss it with him and let him practice for it but it would have strings.You know best what the strings would be...College isn't for everyone.Tech schools may be a good alternative.Is he interested in computers? Tech stuff? My son Nick is doing quite well watching terrorists trying to break into U.S banking systems...He has a Masters degree but he got the job because he's a self taught techie...There are alternatives to traditional education...I'm sure there's one that he can excel in....When you have a special child like Alex you don't have to follow the leader.Find what he's good at and what he likes and build from there...I never ever in a million years thought Jimmy would go to college..He went because he got a Soccer Scholarship and a promise of being the starting goalie for the varsity team...He went to college to continue playing soccer....His senior year he played soccer to go to college...He had grown up..Find what he's confident in.That's the key..You can do this...No more "What If's" Do here and now....It will be O.K.

Thank you SP! I need that pull back to reality. I think he can make it to graduation. It's just gonna take some work. It's not that he is unable to understand the work because he is capable but that he is unable to handle the anxiety of what ever fear he has built up in his system. I just don't know. I'm sick of new meds, I'm sick of new doctors, I'm ready to write to Dr. Phil.

 

[Drottwiler]

8:00 time for Bones season premier.

 

[tlmoody27]

In Pa you could go the disability route.

That's an option but not until he is over 18. Tried earlier to get SSI for him b.ut again we made too much money was my understanding. I'll figure it out somehow. I just need someone to point me in a new direction because I've run out of ideas.

 

[Bamrz]

That's an option but not until he is over 18. Tried earlier to get SSI for him b.ut again we made too much money was my understanding. I'll figure it out somehow. I just need someone to point me in a new direction because I've run out of ideas.

I have no clue how to help, but I have some bony shoulders you can lean on. {{{{TIFF}}}}

 

[mfraz25]

I have no clue how to help, but I have some bony shoulders you can lean on. {{{{TIFF}}}}

What Bam said. (((Tiff)))

 

[tlmoody27]

I have no clue how to help, but I have some bony shoulders you can lean on. {{{{TIFF}}}}

thank you!!

 

[tlmoody27]

and thank you too!!!!

 

[FlyingV]

((((((Tiff))))))

 

[Drottwiler]

My shoulders are big and flabby. were all here for ya.

 

[FlyingV]

Tiff, we all do the very best we can for our kids. That's all you can do. In the end it is up to them to make decisions on how they want their life to be. You are doing everything in your power to help him, more than a lot of parents would do. Stop beating yourself up.

 

[Drottwiler]

Commercial every one watching telly?

 

[Drottwiler]

What FV said..

 

[FlyingV]

nah, actually working over here.

 

[Drottwiler]

Tv and surfing. at the shack.

 

[mfraz25]

Building a display.... blech