Today, John's behavior therapist came over. We haven't seen her for awhile, so we had a lot to share. She gave us some techniques to use to control him when he gets really wound up. And, she is going to come over in the morning next week to help John get on the bus. Hopefully she will have some ideas to make this easier going forward. I start my new job next week, so I will not be able to help Yoshie in the morning. She simply cannot do this herself so we need to figure out something very quickly.
We also are considering starting John on his new seizure drug (Onfi) and backing off on the Risperidone for now. We have to discuss with his doctors first though. There are several doctors now, and I want them all to be in agreement about our course of action.
We think John IS slightly better these days. It can be hard for us to tell, but we did have his sitters over again tonight and they said he was much better this week than last. We have noticed that John is eating like crazy these days. He has always been a big eater, but now he can eat non-stop for hours. Weight gain is a very common side-effect of Risperidone, and it looks like he is running in to this.
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