Something about me…
Here's something about me that has never changed.
I like to watch traffic. At work I look out of my window and I can see one of our major highways. One of my favorite things is to look out of that window and watch the cars going by in the distance.
I like watching airplanes do the same thing. Out of my back porch there is a line of airplanes that go by every evening. I like sit and watch them.
When I fly, I like to look out the window and see the cars on the ground driving around on the roads.
When I was a child on the military bases, my favorite sound was the airplanes taking off in the distance. They were heading somewhere and I just liked to listen to them.
I wonder what, if anything, that says about me. I've thought about it and I don't know. Maybe it means I'm detached from my fellow man and prefer to watch people going somewhere from afar rather than dealing with people face to face. Who knows? I'm usually good at self examination and I can be brutally honest with myself. When I thought about this I was stumped.
Anyway, that's something about me that you probably didn't know.
New Medication for Morgan
Morgan is trying a new medication. We started him on a free sample presciption on Monday March 6, when he was on Spring Break. We wanted to start him out when we could watch him ourselves and assess the right dose. We started him on one 5 mg pill for a couple of days, then upped it to two pills a day. After a couple of days we went to three a day, but quickly backed down to two a day.
We found that on one pill, there was really no difference. On two pills, he responded well and we saw a really positive difference. We finally went to three pills, but that was too much. He went into hyperactive mode and went overboard. Now he's back to two pills (10 mg) a day and we're waiting for his 3 months prescription to arrive now.
Giving him his pills is a real bear in the morning. He really doesn't like taking these pills, mostly because they are larger, caplet sized. His old pills fit nicely into a mini-peanut butter cup. These new pills are larger and he's not supposed to chew them, either. In the beginning, giving him the pills was a major drama. It usually ended with me raising his voice to him and then Ash waking up and weighing in.
Recently, he's been getting better, and I don't have to raise my voice. It takes a while to try and convince him to take the pills, but I don't have to really raise my voice for him and we don't wake up Ash any more.