Elliott began his anti-depression medication today.  The medication he is on is called Remeron. This is a medication that until now, I've never heard of.  I was a bit uncomfortable with this because of how little we knew about it. However, after meeting with his psychiatrist, Dr. Reynolds, it's really the only option we have and by far the safest.  We also met with his pediatrician at Akron Children's Hospital as well.  He agreed that this was the best option we had and because Elliott's depression is so bad, we really needed to get this started.  Elliott is very capable of taking pills.  However, he doesn't like taking medicine at all.  In fact, simply asking him to do so led to a meltdown/panic attack and a flat out refusal to…

I had the amazing opportunity to review a few products by Enjoy Life.  Enjoy Life foods provides a variety of healthy, allergy free foods. As most of my readers are familiar with, Elliott is by far, my pickiest eaters.  Not only does he deal with aspergers and a host of sensory related issues but he has also been diagnosed with a tree nut allergy. Suffice it to say, getting him to eat anything, can be a real struggle. When I was approached with this opportunity, I jumped on it.  I figured that Elliott might get a kick out of helping me test and review these products, and maybe, just maybe, he'll find something that he really likes. I'll be completely honest with you, I wasn't holding my breath. Having said…

As with any child with #Autism or any child period, for that matter,  Emmett had a pretty up and down day. There were periods of time where all he did was scream and scream some more. There were other times that he was exceptionally happy and enjoying the moment we were in.  That's pretty much par for the course, as far as Emmett's concerned lately.  This morning he was really tired but refused to go upstairs and take a nap. So Lizze laid down for a little while and I set up Emmett on the couch and put on Spiderman Unlimited, his current favorite show on Netflix. He didn't even make it through the opening theme song before he was out.  He went from screaming and meltdowns to peacefully asleep,…

I received a call from Best Buy today.  They were letting me know that the TV was being replaced.  This was really exciting and we went right away. I had to bring in out defective one and they were going to swap it out with a comparable model. This didn't go as planned because all the TV's they had to swap it with were basically downgrades.  Even though our TV was valued at $1,200 when we bought it, they would only give us a replacement TV valued at basically $700. I'm confused about bit by their logic in this but at the same time, a free replacement is a free replacement, especially when what you have is broken. Anyway, it eventually worked out because we were able to get another…

Lizze only drives on the rarest of occasions anymore.  This means that if she needs to be somewhere, I'm usually driving her. She stepped away from driving last year because her migraines were just too bad. Today she had another appointment and Emmett and I had to take her there and wait.  Emmett and I waited in the car because Emmett's way to much of a handfull to actually wait in the office. The appointment lasted almost an hour and a half. It was a really long hours and a half, trust me.  We did make the best of it though.  We played eye spy, sang songs, listened to the radio, played hide and seek and pretended we were sleeping. He did really well,  especially considering how long we waited.…