Thursday, December 23, 2010

Bored

Ok, so after spending 6 hours in the emergency room yesterday we were amazingly able to get a canceled appointment with Dr. P MAC's talk therapist today! The office opened at 9 and by 9:30 we had the canceled appointment at noon, which was right before their office holiday party. This left us enough time to be able to pack the car and run to the dollar store for the traditional family "night before Christmas" exchange (my father reads the book 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and every time he says right we pass the gift to the right, etc).

What we found out at the talk therapists was that although yesterday MAC really couldn't say why she tried to grab her friend's dry ice cubes, today she was able to say that she was bored during class and that bored is a "negative" word for her. She has two coping strategies only one of which is viable during school hours, go and talk to her guidance counselor.

We had a 6 1/2 hour drive to my parents after the meeting and she was able to keep herself entertained (thank God for electronics)! We tried to talk to her but all she wanted to do was draw. I know this is the asperger’s kicking in but it's almost Christmas! I hope tomorrow she'll at least come and draw in the same room as the rest of the family. Wonder of wonders I was just talking to Hubby about finishing the grocery shopping tomorrow morning and MAC said she wanted to go with us! Yeah!

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