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Hi all i havn,t been around for a while as life in general is very busy. Marcus is doing Ok at school at the moment. Currently year 10, teenager in a big way mostly, grunts and hiding in his room these days. He is however fairly calm the odd outburst but think puberty didn,t like him hopefully the old hormones are letting us all have soon peace. Piers is the big problem at the moment he is a little terror, completely hyperactive, no sense of danger and continues to be agressive. We have an appointment at the externalising behaviour clinic on Tuesday to get get results of second ADHD assessment. The problem is he is quite calm at school and hardly ever causes them any bother. However he had a major meltdown and punched me during Marcus consultants appointment (they have the same cons) and the day after the hospital phoned to see if i wanted to accept an earlier appointment,(seems too much of a coincidence to me) have mixed feelings about dual diagnosis i am sure you know what I mean. Lydia is doing better, increasing in confidence daily now little miss busy bee. She now dances, swims, does gymnastics cheerleading, beavers and brownies. We are never in. The boys cope Ok with all this surprisingly. Hubby still not coping well with it all and is infact still in denial with occasional periods of woe is me.

I cope better as I am now doing a lot of exercise, and i run 3 times a week, the difference is amazing and i have lost some weight WOO HOO. I am doing the race for life tomorrow (first event for me)and I am doing a 10k for the NAS in October. In a reasonably good place at the moment. Wanted to post something positve for a change and thank everybody for their help when times have been hard. Hope you are well at the moment. Will let you know how the race went.

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Hi Joy, it was lovely catching up on your post, I do wonder how you are getting on, very positive about Marcus and his progress at school, and wow little Lydia doing all those activies even with out your weekly runs, just the running around you have to do with all that with Lydia arnt surprised if your a stick insect.

 

It may be that the Teachers are just not specialised enough to pick up on the signs of ADHD, many teachers dont even identify the symptoms, it could be that Piers responds to the structure and routine of a day routine, I have noticed throw our own local ADHD many boys with previous Diagnosis are been undiagnosedxx My Jay had three assessments all came back defo ADHDx

 

It great to hear that your running, wow well done there, and two Races, thats very good, you must enjoy running, I try to myself but not as disaplined as you, good luck for the races and nice for the update as I do think about you all.

 

JsMumx

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Hi JS mum good to hear from you. Hows evrything going like i said havn,t been on here for ages and likewise was wondering how you were.

Its interesting what you say about school. Piers LSA will often write in his home school diary that he has had a good day and done fantastic pieces of work but then he comes home and can,t seem to read to a word to us and he still cannot write his surname. He has repeated reception but is still far behind lots of the others in the class. Parents evening was a real eye opener, his teacher said they had no issues with poor concentration but then in the next breath said she sits him by her feet at carpet time to keeep him on track. He has 18 hours support and his LSA is wonderful and has really taken to him and him to her. He seems to enjoy school and i think the routine is good for him. At home we have lots of behavioural issues Lydia has a friend round to play every night (little girl next door)but unfortunately piers has a real problem with her he thinks he can control who comes into the house and when, he often viciously attacks both his sister and her friend. He and Marcus continue to have a love hate relationship M will sometimes allow him into his room but then other times will get upset when he tries to go in. Teenage thing i suppose.excited and nervous at the same time about tomorrow will let you know the verdict.

Completed race for life 5K in 31 mins 11 secs not bad to say i had been ill.

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Piers recieved diagnosis of ADHD today and starts treatment tomorrow with ritalin. Although the diagnosis was expected i am still realing from it. Really scared about riatalin and also it just doesn,t seem fair that my beautiful boy has to deal with so much at his young age. He has taken it very well and is glad there is a reason why he behaves the way he does as he always gets upset after an outburst. Hope treatment brings positive changes. Sure i will have lots more questions once i get my head around it all.

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Hello,

also havnt posted much at all till just recently, and then it was negative!!! so really pleased to hear its all going so well. Hope he reponds well to the ritalin, keep us posted on that.

 

Enid

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