transition planning???

[me-n-mykids]

Hey there,

I tried the rainbow analogy with my son.
I asked him, "Can we have a rainbow without the color orange in it?"
He said, "No."
I said, "See that means that orange can be a good and nice color.  I mean rainbows are pretty and you like them."
He replied, "Orange is still bad."

So that kind of didn't go the way I wanted it to, but you never know what is going to happen.  We frequent Holland at our house all the time.  I just shake my said and think "here we go again."

I talked to his counselor last night.  I called the center and asked them if she had been in the office that day, because I had not yet recieved a call from her and it was very near closing time for the center.  They patched me through to her office.  I told her what had happened and she asked if he was suicidal.  I told her that he wasn't, but he did have high anxiety and depression and that we saw his Neurologist and that he commented that the depression is a major role right now along with the Autism.  I told her about leaving a message for Dr. Lam to discuss possible med change. 
She really didn't seem all that concerned for Christopher, but I guess since I am the parent and am closer to the problem my perception could be off.  Or maybe what I view as a crisis/problem isn't really a problem.  I don't know, It just didn't seem like we were important enough to warrent a call, not even from her supervisor to tell us that she was ill and would call as soon as she could.  You would think that they would have a back up plan in case something like this happens.  But then again I had to call her to talk.

Well enough of trying to shrink myself, I always tend to think on the negative side and start to think that I am really not cut out to do this, but I know that GOD would never give me more than I can handle.  After all, we survived and got stronger when my daughter Victoria was dx'd with Leukemia at 2 1/2 years old and went through 2 1/2 years of Chemotherapy.  Now she is a moody teenager with asthma.  She is 15 and great kid.  She has gotten pretty much straight "A's" this year.  She is in 8th Grade.  I got her a new laptop for getting good grades all year.

talk to you soon,
Michele