Friday November 20, 2009

Blech! Snow. We've been having a mild fall here. It's been in the 50s and 60s most of the week. Very wet yesterday though.

Re: the possibility of Autism, I'm in the information gathering stage of the game. His doc has more of a wait and see attitude at this point. I'm taking db's advice/direction with caution. His son has Aspberger's and he and dw saw some things in my ds the last time they came to town that they saw in their ds. He said they kept expecting him to outgrow certain behaviors and he never did. With a strong family history on both sides, I actually want ds evaluated. I also found out from dmil that they tried to dx my dh with "mild" autism back in the '70s and dh's parents never acted on it since he was able to function fairly well. Of course, this was the first dh heard of all this too. I don't see any harm in an evaluation. If there's something going on with ds other than delayed speech, I want to address it early. If there's not, that's good too. He goes to the Children's Institute in 2.5 weeks for speech and I'll see what they recommend. I also know that it takes awhile to be seen at Children's Hospital/WPIC to be evaluated by the child psychiatrist, so I'd like to get the ball rolling to be working out a plan over spring/summer before he goes to pre-school. If I were to call for an appointment today, I can almost be sure the soonest they would have available is in February. I can always cancel it if I find out he doesn't need it.

Oh, BTW, after I typed my last post, I was holding dd and bent to hug ds. She squirmed out of my arms and I dropped her on her head! It was the worst moment of my life. I felt her going and I couldn't get her back. Then I heard the hollow thud and screamed. I talked to the doc immediately. She seems okay so far except for the flat spot and goose egg on the back of her head. If there's more swelling than that or she becomes irritable, sluggish, nauseated, I'll take her to the ED for an x-ray. I keep thinking of Natasha Richardson though.

First of all, Happy Birthday, Joe!
Well. The DON and Admin called me at 1:30pm today and I am fired. For being insubordinate during the morning managers meeting regarding a patient I had not sent out. (family and NP concurred with me and we were continuing to monitor...) Admin wants them to die in the hospital. And when I tried to explain, she took it as insubordination! A hell of a thing, after over 2 years as MDS, on-call, unit manager etc........Oh well....... Hope there is something to apply for in the Sunday paper. We ( mama and I) are only 2 or 3 weeks from being homeless. Prayers are appreciated!

Then. on the other hand......Life's a ***** then you die......