Pathways of Life

Sitting at work at the moment, and I have 10 minutes before my first appointment comes in, so I thought I'd write about the last week or so - it's been pretty big!

Last week, X's teacher spoke to me, and expressed some concerns that he may be ADD or posibly on the autism spectrum - he can be very distracting in class, and isn't grading as well as he should. Obviously, I was a bit devastated, but probably not really surprised, he can be pretty challenging at times - a total angel, and then the antichrist, but still my little antichrist, so I was still a bit devastated.  So at home on my own, I did a bit of research of my own, and came to my own (nowhere near qualified) conclusion that X showed no autism traits, but quite a few of the ADHD ones; taking myself off to bed, I gave myself 10 minutes to be sad for my babe, then got up, and did more research, and made some appointments.

Fast track to the monday just gone, D and myself took X to a place called Learning Connections, an holistic centre for learning difficulties, attention problems etc.. it was amazing! After 3 hours, we found out that X was not ADHD or on the spectrum, but does have a few brain paths that are slightly immautre, which leads to his attention problems. We also found out our poodie is in the 95th percentile for auditory learning, and is incredibly intelligent; so with physical excercises that we are doing to strenghthen specific neuro pathways, and a few dietary changes, things are looking incredibly posititve on that front.

I can't tell you the relief I felt after leaving this appointment, as a mother you want your kids to be perfect, and not have any problems that will lead to them struggling in life; so to know that proffessionals think he'll be just fine was wonderful. And don't tell D, but I'm pretty sure he gets his intelligence of me.... :)

So all in all, it's been a pretty big 10 or so days, I've been getting up before 6, and not napping at all!!! (side note, if you ring my phone after 7:30pm, good chance I'll have already passed out for the night)  I am feeling much better, and like I'm on the up again. I've had a couple of blows with family issues that I can't be arsed delving into at the moment, but ultimately, I'm surrounding myself with the people I love, and whom I know love me in return; and who want nothing but the best for me.