My older daughter has been in the adolescent behavioral health program at a hospital for the last week after taking a bunch of pills some boy on the bus gave her. She’s a 9th grader. We’ve since learned that part of the reason she’s been getting D’s and F’s in her classes the past quarter is because she’s been skipping classes. She said since she got her hair cut short people are calling her a dyke. How can kids be so cruel? She also mentioned that her parents may be getting a divorce. Did she think this would help that situation? People have told me that kids somehow unconsciously do drastic things to become a problem, so parents will have to come together to deal with it instead of worrying about their marriage. Interesting.
The psychiatrist at the hospital agreed that home schooling for the last remaining weeks of the school year would be preferable. I’m supposed to return to work on Monday! I emailed my manager in desperation, asking her to please consider letting me return part time. She responded that she’d have to think about how that might work, and said she’d get back to me in a couple of days. I see my psychiatrist today and need to let her know whether I want to pursue long term disability or not. I also asked my manager to let me work strange hours if part time was not an option (7am-12pm and 5-8pm), but I’m not at all sure I’d be able to keep that up along with home schooling, especially with all the sleep I’ve been requiring lately. Maybe if I’m just so busy sleep won’t enter my mind…we could hope.
I’m very worried about my daughter. She’s taking a small dose of prozac for now, and will begin therapy once weekly. In addition to keeping her home I will have to figure out ways to keep her happy without letting her roam the neighborhood (the boy who gave her pills lives in our neighborhood). My husband is already pursuing the boy by going through the school principal who will then get their security officer to follow up on it. My neighbors have a farm with horses that they said my kids are more than welcome to visit. Once we know where it is, they said we can even go there on our own whenever we’d like. She can groom the horses, feed them, ride them, etc. She loves being outdoors, so I think this could be a life saver for us.
The school will send a tutor once a week with all of her assignments for the week. Hopefully we will be able to get her through the end of the year and help her get her grades back up. The school has been very helpful. My son was sick yesterday, throwing up all day, it just makes me wonder how on earth I’ll be able to handle such situations if I’m also trying to work, but we are reliant on my health insurance. Please pray that either the part time or the long term disability comes through for me!
