Oh ... Really?

That's not all I have to say! »

I did get a call from the director Thursday to let me know that they had to use physical restraint on him when he flipped out. He had gotten upset when told to remove his jacket in class. I really hate to say this, but this news did no more than cause me to raise an eyebrow. It's par for the course with a bipolar kid. They are loaded with defiance. They get their mind set on something and telling them No is like lighting a fuse. Like kids with ADHD, their brains tend to have a serious deficit in executive functioning. That's the part of our minds that allows us to make wise decisions based on information we already have, new information we are aquiring and a reasonable assumption of the results we will obtain. Thinking it through ... these kids have a hard time doing that. That's why parents and teachers often throw their hands up in exasperation and say, "What were you thinking when you decided to do that?!?" The answer is usually, "I dunno ... " *sigh*

Friday ... about 4:30, I got a call from a county deputy while I was at work. I was in the middle of a huge call at the time ... me, the screaming customer, an installer at the customer's home, a line services tech and a NOC agent. I also had another agent running back and forth to the crash machine that is not behind our firewall doing nslookup on DNS addresses. We had just gotten the line issues resolved and were working on the DNS issues and had yet to tackle the mess on the customer's computer. My second line rang and they said I had an emergency call from the police. I got one of my colleagues to take my call, transferring all three lines to him and getting them all conferenced back together so I could get the police transferred to me. Needless to say, my hands were shaking so bad, I am surprised I didn't hit the wrong button and release the whole crew.

The officer came on and told me my son had been attacked and assaulted and was on the way to the hospital. They had called my parents who were also on the way. I flew out of the office to the hospital. It turns out that he was relatively OK, but he has one hell of a shiner and had to have four stitches under his eye.

He was one heck of a trooper getting examined, answering questions from the police and waiting in the hospital. I was a mess at first, until I saw that he was OK. We went home and I collapsed in exhaustion.

Today, I didn't go in to work to get overtime. I needed the day off badly. I went and got my nails done, picked up a few things at the store and mostly concentrated on doing as little as possible. My son has gone over to a friend's house to spend the night. So I have a few hours of peace and quiet. The friend's parents are well aware of my son's issues and they think he's the cat's meow. So I feel safe with him there. Good people like that are hard to find.

It's raining again ... we got 7 inches in three days last weekend, this weekend we will get another 3 to 4 and there are several weather warnings and alerts for flash floods, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Road are flooded in many areas, even in the city. Last weekend, a mudslide took out several apartment buildings a couple miles away from here. Severely injured was a doctor living in one of the apartments. I know him ... I spent some clinical time in medic school in his operating room, learning to place endotracheal tubes. They say that he will have to lose a leg. Maybe both. It is probably the end of his career as an anesthesiologist.

So many tragedies this week ... « Hush me up!