First off, the court interview/visitation went well on Saturday. Luckily she had experience with kids like Alvah so knew what to watch for before things would escalate with him. After some rearranging of the seating, he was fine through the interview and I got some helpful information on stuff, which was good. Next step is our court date in June and the court will do all the document collecting and stuff on their end, so hopefully we won't have anything else to worry about. My husband can even call into the court instead of us having to show up in person with Alvah in tow, which will definitely make things a lot less stressful.
The rest of the weekend, Alvah started acting weird and by Monday he was not doing well and not stable. After a few days of more medication than I wanted to give him, a lot of outbursts and more walls to fix, yesterday he woke up and started trying to shove entire blankets and clothing down his throat. I was scared to death he was going to inhale that crap into his airway and we were concerned that maybe he had strep again (since the last time he tried shoving things down his throat was when he had it), so we took him to the doctor's yesterday. The test came back negative, but my husband thought maybe Alvah had a sore throat either way (I mean your tonsils can be swollen without strep, of course), so we decided to ride it out as much as we could. He didn't sleep last night and started doing the same thing at 3:00 in the morning, but after a lot of struggling to stop him from hurting himself and a bunch of medication, he finally settled down. He woke up this morning in a much more stable condition and has been eating and drinking like normal so far, so hopefully whatever the heck was going on is past.
During one his outbursts, I threw my hand up between his head and the wall to stop him from hurting himself on a wall that had no hollow spot behind the drywall, but all 2x4 structural stuff and I ended up bruising the crap out of my hand as a result. Typing hasn't really been in the cards this week (thank goodness I didn't have any new paperwork to fill out). My fingers are turning wonderful shades of technicolor purple now, but I'm way more mobile, so I'm glad I can finally get some stuff done in the way of typing and such.
So yeah, carpeting Alvah's closets was DEFINITELY out this week with everything going on, but I did manage to get the desk cleaned off (still need to dust it, though...yeah it ain't perfect, but TRUST me it is a vast improvement over where it was...it had become a catch all for everything and you could barely fit a laptop on it...sure the shingle sample is still on there, but we'll need that) and I got a bunch of old paperwork cleaned out of our file cabinets that we didn't need anymore and put those into the "to be burned" pile of paperwork. I got a bunch of stuff printed out and organized for Alvah's new stage in life so I can better keep track of records and such and know where to go to take guardianship classes and things online (husband has to take them too, so doubly nice to have it in an easy to find location).
As for the locating of the panelling, that certainly didn't even get started. I'll have to see if we can find it this weekend or something.
It's definitely been a mixed bag of a week. But, hopefully, looking up. Be prepared for more than one post today as I'm going to be doing a bunch of catch up today since the son is in an okay mood.
Enjoy!
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