It has been a long time since I've been able to work on this site. I'm back; I hope for good.
A couple of things for this blog post:
1. Last summer my son was out of control. The raging was so bad that we had to call the police. I will NEVER do this again. Their response was completely inappropriate to the situation. I told the dispatcher that we were having psychiatric emergency. The police came, 6 cars, and the first on the scene told me that if my son came at hime, he would shoot him. We were trasported to the ER. We asked for an admission to either a psych hospital or a medical hospital. The psych hospitals won't take kids with medical issues, and medical hospitals don't want to take kids with psych issues. Our son was finally admitted to Memeorial Children's Hospital in Houston. Disaster! No one there would acknowledge that a medical condition could manifest with psychiatric symptoms. We were discharged in less than 24 hours with a "consult" with an immunologist in September--this admission was in July. Seriously, not a consult!
If you can avoid ERs and non PANDAS doctors, do so!
A couple of things for this blog post:
1. Last summer my son was out of control. The raging was so bad that we had to call the police. I will NEVER do this again. Their response was completely inappropriate to the situation. I told the dispatcher that we were having psychiatric emergency. The police came, 6 cars, and the first on the scene told me that if my son came at hime, he would shoot him. We were trasported to the ER. We asked for an admission to either a psych hospital or a medical hospital. The psych hospitals won't take kids with medical issues, and medical hospitals don't want to take kids with psych issues. Our son was finally admitted to Memeorial Children's Hospital in Houston. Disaster! No one there would acknowledge that a medical condition could manifest with psychiatric symptoms. We were discharged in less than 24 hours with a "consult" with an immunologist in September--this admission was in July. Seriously, not a consult!
If you can avoid ERs and non PANDAS doctors, do so!