First off, I’d like to say this… The next person who tells me that all that Baby Boy needs is, “a good ass whoopin’” is liable to receive one of their very own.

We took Baby Boy to see his neuro-psychiatrist on Monday. He explained the MRI confusion. Nothing appears to be wrong via the official results. The best guess is that the weakness and Babinski response are the result of nerve damage he’s done to himself when having a fit by jumping, stomping and in general throwing himself into walls and onto the floor.

We do now have a Dx, though. Baby Boy had one of his “episodes” in front of his doctor which led to the Dx of schizoaffective disorder. You can read about that here at the Mayo Clinic’s website. This has lead to a change of medications. He is still taking the Neurontin 3 times a day, but we have increased the Xanax to 4-5 times daily. No more Abilify and no more Geodon. We decided to give one more atypical-antipsychotic a try before moving on to the old standards. This last one we are trying is new, less than a year since it gained FDA approval for treatment of schizophrenic disorders. It’s called Invega. We’re doing a 15 day trial at the lowest dose (3mg) once to twice daily. Yesterday was his first day on it, but also his first day off of the other atypicals so he needed the night-time dose. So far it doesn’t look like he’ll need the night-time dose today.

While it’s a load off knowing that the MRI was nothing to be concerned about in the end. It is still unsettling knowing the Dx and that the outlook of this disorder with early onset isn’t as hopeful as that as early onset bipolar. Especially when it is this severe this early in life. There is a period of mourning that we are going through as parents. Maybe there will be more medical advances before he is an adult. That is what we pray for. Otherwise, it’s just a bit difficult to accept.

We’ve already contacted my attorney to get the ball rolling on a disability claim for Baby Boy. He’s going to need the income to cover things such as respite that insurance doesn’t cover and therapy that the insurance doesn’t cover. Hopefully it will go through without having to go to a hearing, but if we do end up having to go to a hearing, all the better, the administrative law judge will get to experience his disorder first hand because simply discussing it in front of him brings out the rage aspects of the disorder.

I don’t want to talk about this anymore today. It’s very difficult to care for Baby Boy as he tends to be rather verbally and physically abusive when in a rage. When, as a parent, you’ve experienced those things first hand from an actual abusive ex-spouse it’s hard to handle 90% of the time. I’m working on a thicker skin until we can afford to pay someone with psychiatric training to sit with him a couple of times a week just so I can get break now and then.

Unless it’s something major, I doubt that I’ll bring up the nasty bits on here again. I need my escape so pardon me if from here on out it’s posts about sex, paranormal, news, etc… I’m sure that a therapist would call it avoidance, while I’m sure that our neuro-shrink would call it therapy. Yes, that’s how contradictory the actual doctors are from the actual therapists.

Such is life, eh.