SweXtal wrote:
Well let's put it this way.
One kid with so severe cowmilk proteine allergy and soya proteine allergy that we within 20 seconds have to inject adrenaline and hopefully a couple of other quite potent drugs, to keep him from respiratory arrest. he's having ADHD and simply has to be his way, diagnosed asperger and very lonely. He's chewing Concerta 36 mg to be able to be in school. He's taken adrenaline twice himself, and I've lost count of 911 calls and ambulances and emergency calls from school.
I have one kid not needing medication for ADHD/ADD because she's a girl but has my seasonal depressions withint +/- 2 days when I feel like s**t and i don't want to live. She have a fondness of door frames. She walks into them. In school. In public. You name it. Even the older guys she's playing socker with can't understand how she can get so many bruises and don't bother. She can get a ball in her face, saying "it's not your fault" and then ram a kick at the guy 5 years older than her so he has to dodge instead of trying to catch the ball.
I have one kid with total asperger diagnose, pre-school, type 2 allergy for about most of the things you can imagine. Type 2 is you don't react fast. You react slow but over a longer period of time. Goes on 18mg concerta so that he doesn't tear down school. Without the Concerta, He simply can't be in school.
My ex has panic attacks that severerely affects her life. I used to work about, averagely 60 hours a week, until I simply had to end it to cope with the kids.
I have about 8 grams of amphetamine in the house, have enough adrenaline to safely hinder a anaphylactic reaction and a emergency plan for food for all three (they can't eat most of the stuff served on a hospital due to their allergies).
Do I feel stress? Yes, but I'm learning to handle it.
It's just learning to be a parent. "Break down. Go on".
The hardest things come when you have to do a allergy provocation. Because there's full emergency readiness with a couple of scratches and a splat of a liquid on the arm.... Me and my ex automatically switches to hangar deck drill and just does the drill. And the hospital staff looks astonished. But it's been a life with ambulances and so on so we're so used to it that we don't care we don't live together anymore but just switch to emergency mode. In less than two minutes, we have a checkout list for food, medications, clothing and whatever.
Both of our kiddos (one HFA, the other probably NT) both have anaphalaxis to egg and peanut. My HFA kiddo also has delayed allergic reactions to foods and he is on an enteral formula to get all of his nutrition. Your kids sound like ours in a way. It's hard to keep them safe when they are not under our supervision!
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15 Dec 2006, 8:11 am
