Magic #

We have a magic # with Honeybunches. It's called "1.1". 
Can you guess what it is?
It's when moods are not swinging and life is more fun.
Times are not so rough his motor is not as fastly run.
Manic thoughts don't fill his mind.
He doesn't need to try as hard to be kind.
He's more in control of his actions and words.
The things that he does aren't so absurd.
Tears don't fill his eyes as sadness rips apart his little heart.
Wishing we had found this magic # in the start.

The magic # of 1.1, can you guess it anyone?
It's the magic of a pill, a wondrous pill called Lithium. 
It takes away the sadness and calms the manic side too.
Yup, all that I have said is true.
The magic # we found again!
Oh how I missed you 1.1.

Honeybunches pdoc called this afternoon.  His Lithium level is now again at our magic # of 1.1.  Adding the little 150 mg pill worked.  This is always where he does best.  He had one of the best counseling sessions in the many years he's been seeing L. He talked about feelings, used his imagination and did an awesome job!  Today was much better at his Summer program too.  I'm thinking yesterday Honeybunches was most likely just testing Mr M.  He has always liked to study and test people to see how they react to his behaviors. Even when he was an infant he just gave people this curious look and seemed to be studying them.  It's hard to explain. Honeybunches has even been waking up the past week to use the bathroom at night, going right back to bed and not being as wet in the mornings!  Incontinence has almost always been an issue with him.  He wasn't potty trained at all until age 4 1/2.  Then accidents were so frequent that he chose to wear Goodnights until age six.  From that time he's had issues with night time wetting except for a six month trial on Desmopressin, but after six months it just stopped working even though they raised the dose.  That's back when he was six-years-old.  We even brought him to see a Pediatric Urologist at that time who said his incontinence was related to his Autism and other delays.