When I began this blog my main intent was to have a place to write about my family in general and my children in specific. Given my eldest child’s mental health issues, I have devoted a lot of space to him. On top of that, I have given some space to small rants and political discussions.
Unfortunately in the past month or so I have been less able and less interested in writing. Most of this is due to my sons ongoing care. Everytime I would report a light at the end of the tunnel, he would take a turn for the worse (two steps forward, one step back). I just lost the desire to write.
Now, as things are starting to look up again, I want to get back into writing. And not just about Avi, but about all of my kids. I will start with an update on Avi and then hopefully as the weeks go by, on my whole family. At the end of the summer we are going to Disney, so I hope to do a lot of blogging about that (as we are all big Disney lovers!).
On to Avi. Last time I wrote we were trying to get Avi into a partial hospitalization program. This has happened, and he has been in this program for about three weeks. At fist it was hard and he rebelled as much as he can. This program, though, is set up for extremely oppositional children like Avi, and at this point, he is beginning to learn how to control himself (at least as the program) and he is even participating in his group therepy sessions (where he had not when he first started).
Our school district, in his IEP, stated that Avi should go out of district to a theraputic school that is set up to handel kids like Avi. He is also supposed to get what they call extended school year, which essentially means that he will go to school 48 weeks out of the year, rather than the normal 36 – 38.
Yesterday Avi was accpeted into a school called Nu Vue Academy which is a public school run by our county education commission. The social worker from our school district as well as Avi’s case worker from the hospital would like to see him there and soon after the meeting we were told that the school district as approved this. On Monday, June 30, Avi will begin this program.
So, as the light come more into fucus, we are hoping that this next chapter will be what is best for Avi.