Chris HAS been sleeping well at night for months, but was having more assertive (to put it mildly!) behavior during the day. After struggling for several weeks (months?) with his having trouble obeying limits and NOT pulling on our arms where he wants us to go, pulling us along the road, hallways, kitchen, wherever something is that he wants, or trying to leave places he didn’t want to be, we called an emergency appt. with the psychiatrist. He is a very caring doctor and listened to us and actually got to witness the “wanting to leave” behavior in his office, as did his staff in the waiting room (they called in an assistant for us to help as I had Ryan with me too).
Day: October 15, 2006
Harrison the Mouse, and our trip story
and other every day occurrences! In a life that’s so unique sometimes, it’s kind of liberating to know we have problems like other people’s. 😉
After our oldest son Chris enjoyed quite a bit of a movie downstairs with us (RV – pretty cute!) we were getting ready to go upstairs (he had wanted a shower a few times during the movie and had gone up for his 2nd or 3rd one). I was going in the laundry room to check on the towel load (it never dries in one cycle) and Rog drew in a deep breath and I said, “What is it?” He replied that he saw the mouse (the phantom mouse that we’ll see once or twice and never see again so we think it’s gone). Colleen had already named it Harrison. We had half-heartedly bought traps last early winter and set them, but then de-activated them when we’d seen nothing of Harrison(s) for weeks and our lovely Spice escaped down into the basement and in her 8th life did NOT get trapped by one (she later did die in the basement in the sump pump though).