80s.....I'm so sorry for your troubles. Sending all best wishes for you and your family ♥
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I have 73 notifcations to check so I wanted to just post this before I even read those...things are not great here.
We had to have our son admitted to a facilty as an inpatient a couple weeks ago.
He became (even more) dangerous to himself and us and we had no other choice. He's 14, but has never been away from us more than a very rare overnight with grandparents. He will be home next week (they seem to think he is more stable now) and I miss him so so much (we have visited, but didn't go well) but I know he is where he needs to be right now.
Thank you to those who have asked about/prayed for/sent good thoughts to us. Truly appreciated.
I am so stoked to hear this! My job is linked to this kind of role, I have a client whose home I go to 5 days a week, it gives relief to the other family members.He has been home a couple days now. So far, so good. And he will FINALLY be getting in-home help here that we have been requesting for about a year.
THANK YOU for the continued prayers and kind words.
I am so stoked to hear this! My job is linked to this kind of role, I have a client whose home I go to 5 days a week, it gives relief to the other family members.
My role is vocational, so myself and another worker take our client out for a couple of hours to try and get some integration into the community, with the right medication and lots of patience (and training for us), we're able to do some pretty fun things with our client. It gives the family time alone in their own home too... so that they're better able to cope with the difficult nights. Our clients family also sleep away from the house 2 nights a week in week one and 3 nights a week in week two, which helps enormously because people on the autism spectrum might go several nights in a row with no sleep at all.
I am really very happy to hear that help is coming, I believe this will change your lives immensely.