Today's the day

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started her residential program today. Bringing her down to the

school was easier than I thought. We had no problems (knock on wood) with

her when we had to leave her at the school. I just called her 'cottage' and

they tell me that she is adjusting pretty well.

The only problem we had today was with her (now EX) psychiatrist. I told

him as soon as we knew where she was going that he'd have to send down a

report along with the prescriptions for the medications she is on. Last

Saturday, my mother and I took down for an appointment. But

apparently, we didn't have one. (I had called him a couple of weeks ago to

let him know that her liver function tests came back elevated. (She was on

Trileptal which can affect the liver). I also told him that I needed the

report/scripts as soon as possible since she was starting school on 8/5. He

asked me if I thought we should cancel the appointment. I said I wasn't

sure but would get back to him. I didn't get a chance to get back to him,

so I went to the appointment anyway (since if I MISSED the appointment, I

would have had to pay for it anyway.) So on Saturday we discovered that we

did not have an appointment after driving all the way down there (about a

half an hour using the 'short cut') He was also very rude to my mother when

she reminded him that we needed the prescriptions from him so that

could get the medications at the school.

So today we get down to the school and there are still no prescriptions for

. The nurse called the psychiatrist to try to get him to fax them

down. The psych asked her if there was a psychiatrist on staff at the

school. When he was told that there was, he said 'Have them call me' and

HUNG UP THE PHONE!

The nurse then called the school psychiatrist, who ordered the medication

for (actuallly, he/she just ordered the Clonidine, since we had

planned to take her off the Trileptal anyway (she had developed a tic from

the medication in addition to the suspected liver problems - which btw we

retested her for... I'm waiting to hear the results of the last set of

tests.)

Well, that's the latest from here.

Patti R.