Things with Honeybunches have been going amazingly well. This is the last week of his Summer Enrichment Program. Tomorrow is actually the last day. He's been doing awesome there without any issues at all. :)
Honeybunches seen his pdoc on Monday. "Interesting" was the newest word used to describe him. Add that to the list of "Complicated", "Complex", and "A tough cookie to figure out" lol. Anyways, she found it interesting how wonderfully he does with his Lithium being on the higher end of the therapeutic range. Honeybunches counselor L worked things out so we can continue to see her. Even better she found a time that works for the afternoon buses. Hooray! We made a new routine. We got to town, went and found a nice air conditioned restaurant, got him some fries (I got a Veggie "Grinder" aka Sub aka Hero aka... whatever you call them in your states lol), then we went to the library. I was happy they gave us library cards although we don't live in that city. Now we have somewhere to go to beat the heat. Honeybunches loved playing on the computer and their selection of Junie B Jones books. They had so much more than our small town library did. We stayed there until it was time to walk to counseling. His session with L was "Interesting" I guess we could say, since that's the word of the day that we are spelling with his alphabet soup. They were doing puppet play. Honeybunches puppet got aggressive with L's puppet. Aggressive play with Beanie Babies has been the theme in our house lately. His Beanies get arrested by Officer Honeybunches for shooting eachother, hitting, punching, and other aggressive acts. Then he literally throws them in jail. Sometimes his rescue team (Firetrucks, ambulances) have to come save the day. Sometimes they don't and the animals die so he covers them with washcloths. Think he watches too much Law & Order SVU or Cops? IDK. Those are about the only things he will actually sit down to watch on television. Anyways, L found his aggressive play interesting. Her animal puppet began talking to his animal puppet about being friends. After she said it's obvious he has a fear of harm. That rang a bell in my brain this morning. I remembered hearing about a phenotype of Childhood Bipolar called exactly that... Fear of Harm or FOH. You can read more about that here. I found that all really interesting. Honeybunches does fit a lot of what they are talking about. I've heard about it before in my groups at TBMF, but never really looked into it much. For some reason, her saying that about him made me think of this. I called L and left her a message telling her to Google "Child Bipolar" and "Fear of Harm" as I told her that it was a phenotype of Childhood Bipolar I thought she'd be interested in. I'm curious what she'll think of it...
PS: Some good news!!! Honeybunches' lost 2 lbs from all this walking we have been doing! Our state's medicaid also approved his PT-1 "Prescription for Transportation" forms so he can still see his GI doc who's over an hour away and his Developmental Behavioral Pedi who's over 2 hours away. I was really worried about that, since we don't have a vehicle anymore. That made me happy and relieved some anxiety. Phew!
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