A bump in the road...

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So we had our first real BIG bump in the road since my son Sam came home... He

has been home since Tuesday afternoon and he has been working hard at " bossing

back " Norried Nick (his OCD). He has been successful several times a day since

coming home, but tonight he just couldn't seem to do it, and nothing I was doing

was working... ugh.

I hate that feeling of being stuck, knowing that something else has working

before but isn't working in that moment, but I don't know what else to try. He

had had a GREAT day! Several successful things had happened, yet for some reason

he got " stuck " when it was time to go to bed, and he couldn't get past this one

idea about why the next-door neighbor had ignored him yesterday. I tried to tell

him what the neighbor told me when I asked, which was that he had been feeling

really grumpy because his back was hurting (he has had several non-successful

back surgeries), and he was just having a bad day and didn't mean to upset Sam.

Sammy just got SO riled up thinking " maybe he thinks I'm a BAD kid because I had

to go to the hospital, maybe he thinks I will hurt Gabby (his daughter), why

didn't he say hi, mom? " over and over... then kicking the wall between our

condos (they are literally attached). This was all AFTER he had been CALM in bed

tucked in for the night and ready to go to bed. He was about to go to sleep when

he " accidentally " elbowed me in the stomach. I put that in quotes because I am

not entirely sure whether it was an accident or not. Regardless it took my

breath away and I stepped out of his room to catch my breath. At that point he

started revving up. Things spiraled quickly out of control from there. Then he

started following me around asking me why the neighbor hadn't said hi, etc...

In a short period of time, he was up and down the stairs several times, kicked

several walls, was standing on the kitchen table and counter-top screaming, and

running around the house demanding and explanation... which I had ALREADY given

him! Oh, and he threw the phone... again... luckily it was the one that was

already broken on which the screen doesn't display anything.

GRRRRRRRRR!

SO I have to say I WAS able to stay pretty calm, even though it was the LAST

thing I wanted to do. I did end up calling the crisis line because he said he

wanted to talk to them... then he refused to talk at first, but eventually did,

which was helpful.

But I am REALLY nervous because I go back to work starting on Monday for

inservice and then we both are supposed to start school on 9/1. I really hope

things don't get completely out of control again...

I hadn't been posting much in the last few days because I have been busy but

things have been going pretty well until tonight.

Heidi