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The Long and Winding Road
For a while now I have been looking at our life with Avi as a road. A road has a beginning, middle and an end. Right now we are still very near the beginning of our road, and it is … Continue reading
I Should Have Know Better
With Avi it is often two steps forward and one step back. Yesterday I wrote about our visit with Avi. It was really a great visit and we left very hopeful about the next few days. His new meds seemed … Continue reading
Getting Better
Marsha and I visited with Avi this afternoon. He was obviously happy to see us; he was waiting in the common area watching the doorway to see when we would come through. He ran ahead of us to the room … Continue reading
Hospital
Last night Avi was admitted to Summit Oaks Psychiatric Hospital. Over the past few days we have gotten reports from the partial hospital program that Avi was not following directions, that he had to be taken out of group every … Continue reading
Avi’s Progress (and something fun)
Avi has been getting worse and it has been putting a strain on everything. Today he was admitted to a partial hospital program. He was there over the summer (Princeton House). He will go there from 9:30 to 3:30 every day … Continue reading
Difficulties
This is going to be a very down blog entry. I usually like to write something upbeat, but it’s my blog, and I can write what I want. It seems to us many days that Avi is not getting any … Continue reading
Honors
Yesterday, Avi brought home a perfect report again from school which put him at ten days in a row and he goes on honors. I know that I have mentioned here before, but they break up his school day into … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Avi
In many of my blog postings about Avi I have spoken about our problems getting him the help he needs and also about his problems in general. What I have not really touched upon is “just Avi.” Eight years ago … Continue reading
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Song of the day
My love of The Beatles has clearly transferred to my children. Both Avi and Noam know many Beatles tunes, and they can usually identify a Beatles song even if they have not heard it before (I’m very proud). Now Shayna … Continue reading
Updates
After yet another long time away from blogging it’s time for a little family update. I’ll start with Shayna. Shayna is now in a new school. She is in the 3 year old room at the Y at Parker at … Continue reading