John Kenta

Well, this was an eventful one. Maya, John, and I started the day with the local 2 mile turkey trot.  John ran for the first quarter mile, ...

It's really hard to get video of a seizure.  They come on so randomly and obviously grabbing a camera is not the first thing on your min...

I've mentioned it before, but we've started John on cannabis.  It is legal in Oregon, and we are properly licensed to both administe...

John has been suffering a lot of night seizures, but hasn't had any daytime seizures for quite some time.  Of course that all changed on...

John has really been struggling with big nighttime seizures lately so we decided to get his VNS adjusted again.  It has been at a pretty low...

Last week it was all about chair arrangement.  This week he has moved on to chair destruction: We really don't have much fur...

John's new "thing" is taking all of our dining room chairs and arranging them in some unique way.  I have no idea what he is t...

John is really having a hard time at night now.  Almost every day he will have a big seizure about 1 hour after going to bed.  He wakes up r...

While we've never had long seizure-free periods, we had been doing pretty well lately, averaging about one large seizure per week.   For...

While we avoided damaging the condo while on vacation, it didn't take long after we returned to cause some real damage: Who kn...

We had a nice weekend in Sunriver.  We got in some nice boating, hiking, and swimming.  And, we avoided damaging the condo.  Yay! ...

We got an aluminum teapot so that John couldn't break it. He still found a way:

We are getting the window replaced with some shatter-proof glass, but it is going to take awhile.  So, I had to board it up:  

We knew it would happen someday.  John loves to lay backwards on the couch and kick the window. Thankfully it was only one pane of a...

We'll see how these hold up, but so far they seem like the best invention ever: The drawers and cabinets stay locked until you s...

John eats an amazing amount of food, but he is also pretty wasteful. This is a normal result after eating popcorn: and here is th...

Well, it was a long time coming, but we finally were able to get John on medical marijuana.  It's kind of ironic that it happened the sa...

Maybe the next big thing?

Of course, there is no child lock made that can keep John out.  So, long ago we resorted to tying up the cupboard to keep him out.  It's...

It's been a long time since I've seen a big grand mal seizure.   We had a few last week after he drank the diastat, but those were o...

Oh man.  Yet another new thing to worry about.   John has taken a liking to paper money.   I mean, EATING paper money.  I guess he likes the...

We had a little bit of a scare last week when John decided to DRINK his emergency medicine (Diastat otherwise known as valium) that is norma...

It's hard to see in the picture, but John's new fascination is taking all of our shoes and putting them behind the piano.

The destruction continues.  In the last couple of days he broke the glass light in our bedroom, pulled out the light in our bedroom that was...

So one of John's new hobbies is ripping up papers.  This was just a newspaper, but he has since moved on to magazines and books.

John has always been an escape artist.  But, lately his desire to escape our house has become alarming.  We already have keypad locks on all...

Well, I knew it was too good to last.  We had a couple of months of nice runs where I pushed John in his push chair and Yoshie rode her bik...

He can get on the roof in about 20 seconds now via the tree in our front yard.  And, he will if you take your attention off of him at all. ...

For some unknown reason, John had a NEED to move all of our shoes to this one location.  There was no stopping him. Autism is so weird...

We bought the mats to keep him safer, but of course he figured out a way to have some fun with them:

This is why we keep the cupboard locked:

John was supposed to be in bed (in his pajamas).  This is where we found him:

Window sill:

Another sun visor (3rd one for those that are counting): Another umbrella: And, this is a new one.  He discovered the molding ca...

John is back to climbing the trees.  This is the one he uses to try to get on the roof. As you can guess, we have to watch him very c...

I hope this current phase of tipping over furniture when he gets angry passes quickly.

We took a short 1-night trip to the beach.  We stayed at a place he is familiar with because he loves their pool.  Unfortunately the pool pu...

Yoshie and I can't remember ever seeing John cry.  I think it's been years.  But yesterday evening, he had these wild mood swings wh...