Lost and Tired

One helluva meltdown

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:44:26 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, babble.com, Family, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, Parenting, PICA, schizophrenia, schizophrenic

Gavin just had a helluva meltdown. This was by far, the worst one we have seen in about 9 months. He dropped his sucker and instead of just asking for a new one, he chose to through a fit. I tried to defuse it before he went nuclear but it was just to late. He completely lost it and was [...]

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Learning the hard way

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, babble.com, cause, coat, cold, community, consequence, drop, Family, Forum, house, ice, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, Parenting, PICA, reading, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, situation, snuck, something, support, time, tired, Tree, water, way, yard

Sometimes lessons have to be learned the hard way. No matter how many times I try to explain to my kids why we do something a certain way, sometimes they just have to learn on their own. The other day, Emmett snuck out of the house. Now, I was out with Maggie in the yard at the time. [...]

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Rheumatology Take 2: The weigh in

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, Auto-correct, babble.com, community, Elliott, Family, Forum, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, Parenting, PICA, reading, rheumatology, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, size, support, temperature, tired, weight, WordPress, year

Elliott has been weighed, measured and had his BP and temperature taken. Would you believe that Elliott only weighs about 6 pounds more than Emmett. Elliott will be 6 years old in about 2 weeks and Emmett is only 3 years old. Elliott is just really tiny I guess. It’s just crazy to think that [...]

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Rheumatology Take 2: We have arrived

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:29:33 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, Akron Children, android, appointment, aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum ready, Auto-correct, babble.com, Children, community, Family, Forum, hospital, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, news, ocd, Parenting, PICA, reading, rheumatologist, rheumatology, rule, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, spectrum, support, tired, WordPress

We have arrived at the Rheumatologist located in Akron Children’s Hospital. I would like to also add that we are actually early. Isn’t there a rule somewhere, that you can’t be given bad news when you arrived early to an appointment? Especially, being early and having to get 3 boys on the [...]

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Rheumatologist: Take 2

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:11:31 +0000

Categories: Autism

The day has arrived that contains Elliott’s appointment to see the Rheumatologist. You may recall that Emmett was just there 2 days ago. Elliott is going for a very different reason. Elliott’s muscle tone is extremely low. The other, more pressing issue is his joints and tendons. [...]

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Today’s Victory: 02/21/2012

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:44:00 +0000

Categories: Today's Victory

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, babble.com, Book, Family, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, Parenting, PICA, quality, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, time, today, victory

Today’s Victory is brought to you by Emmett and Elliott. Despite all their fighting and with neither one of then feeling well, they managed to spend some quality time together. The PS3 seems to bring them together. While this didn’t last very long, it’s still a victory in my book and I’m choosing [...]

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Nope….No #Autism Here

Lost and Tired — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:36:14 +0000

Categories: Fun and Funny

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, babble.com, Elliott, Family, hole, lost and tired, meltdown, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, Parenting, PICA, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, sucker, Therapy, today, tought

So I tought I would add to the Nope…No Autism Here posts. Emmett had a huge meltdown today because one of the suckers he got after therapy had a hole in it. Now this sucker wasn’t even his. He had picked that sucker out for Elliott. He just screamed and screamed, for what seemed like forever. All [...]

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Say hello to #Autism Awareness

Lost and Tired — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, android, article, aspergers, Autism, Auto-correct, awareness, babble.com, community, Family, Forum, idea, Lizze, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, ocd, page, paper, Parenting, PICA, reading, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, support, surprise, time, tired, WordPress

As many of you are aware of, the Lost and Tired family was very recently in the paper. However, what I didn’t know at the time was that we actually made the front page. We literally almost took up the entire front page. Since we don’t get the paper, we had no idea until my parents told me. [...]

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Four more….

Lost and Tired — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", adhd, Afternoon, android, appointments, aspergers, Autism, Auto-correct, babble.com, Children, community, Emmett, everyone, Family, Forum, hospital, lost and tired, midNIGHT ROM, morning, ocd, Parenting, PICA, reading, return, rheumatologist, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, support, Thankfully, time, tired, tomorrow, Tonight, Tonight Emmett, turn, WordPress

In about 2 hours the appointments for the day begin. Lizze will get things started for us this morning. Shortly after that, Emmett will get his turn with OT and Speech this afternoon. Tonight Emmett has therapy with Dr. Pattie. Thankfully, that should be it for the day. Tomorrow will bring [...]

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Terrible Tuesday

Lost and Tired — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:04:33 +0000

Categories: Autism

Tags: "Autism Speaks", accurate description, adhd, android, aspergers, Autism, Auto-correct, babble.com, community, couple, description, Elliott, Family, Forum, home, infusion, lost and tired, manic Mondays, meltdown, midNIGHT ROM, morning, ocd, Parenting, PICA, reading, schizophrenia, schizophrenic, School, something, support, tired, today, Tuesday, WordPress

Well, we have manic Mondays and the only thing I could think for Tuesday was Terrible Tuesday. On days like today, terrible is a pretty accurate description. Elliott is sick, Emmett is in a flare and Gavin has already had at least one meltdown this morning. Gavin, decided that he didn’t want [...]

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