I really need to stop saying, "Everything's going well."

Yesterday afternoon I had to take Caleb for his scheduled med check appointment, which we generally do every two months.  We went in Dr. Jenkins, who has been seeing Caleb regularly for over 6 years and she has been seeing Cassidy for four years, asked how things are going.  And I said, "Everything's going well with him."  So she said, "You don't want to change a thing."  I told her that no we didn't want to change anything.  That adding back in the 5mg of Abilify that we did the first part of June was a huge help and things were going well.

In fact, things have been going so well since we came back from camp, that Caleb can spend time in the basement by himself.  (We really should have sent him to sleep-away camp much sooner!!!)  Caleb's anxiety has usually been so bad that there have been numerous times that he couldn't even spend time in his bedroom alone because he was "scared."

However, today he's had more difficulty with not listening and being more disrespectful and a little less easily redirecatble than he has been in the last couple of months since we added back the Abilify.  Now, I know things are not always going to be perfect and I also know that the behavior today is not because I told his doctor, "Everything's going well."  But, gosh darn, it seems like every time I say that the next day is much more difficult!

I so appreciate his doctor in that she respects how I feel things are going and listens to me and doesn't have her own agenda when it comes to the kids' medications.  I also know that if I call her and tell her that things have gotten bad, she is willing to do some tweaking to help us prior to our next appointment so that we're not in constant crisis mode waiting for our next appointment.

On a good note, though, our attorney has the signed Adoption Petition for our Little Guy and was going to get it filed today so that there would be no problems keeping our finalization date of September 8th!!!!!!!!!