What a day! We made an appointment (in November) with a specialist at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and the appt. was FINALLY today- did not think it would EVER get here! But alas it did and I was so pleased with his prognoses for Lucas and what he said about him. He said he thought he still leaned towards the milder end of the autism spectrum rather than classic autism and that he wanted us to have him re-evaluated perhaps by the same dr. that diagnosed him 3 years ago. We are checking into this more- unsure if we will go back to that dr. or stick with a dr. at Texas Children's. No matter the updated diagnoses we know it will still be autism of some form- just the severity of it may change over the years.
The good news was he seemed happy with all the supplementing we have been doing and the therapies he is attending. He basically said he looked like a fine, healthy young man and that he was pleased to hear of his progress since his diagnoses. He addressed the sleep issues and increased his medications to hopefully help him sleep all night more consistently- it should also help even out his mood more in the daytime.
So over all it was a great visit- great results- the interesting part of the day was going home. We got about to Baytown and the mood went South. Lucas had a complete 100% I am tired of this F&%$$%g car seat business about 5 miles outside of Beaumont :( Boy did mama ever drive fast!!! We stopped about 1/2 mile from his daddy's house at a McDonald's to let him puke there rather than in my new car- yes he still pukes when he cries hard, and he got MORE agitated there. We went in for a few minutes and the people in the McD's were convinced we had kidnapped this poor kid and were torturing him. I looked at them like - Are you kidding me? If I kidnapped this I would ssssssoooooooooo bring him back! Anyway we made it to daddy's house and it took a good 20 minutes of a full fledged meltdown until he calmed down and was happy old Lukey again.
So mommy is exhausted beyond words- we increased his Rx tonight so I pray it helps him sleep!
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