Bedtime Horrors!!!!!!!

I have an 11 year old son that has been diagnosed with ADHD. The Doctor has put him on Concerta and just upped his dosage to 36 mg. Things used to be so easy about getting him to bed. I mean we had our moments but over all it is and was the same routine every night. It starts at 9:00. We start give him the warning that he needs to go and get ready for bed. So he will go in his room and get his pajamas on and then come out of his room with his jammies on and a robe. Then it is okay go in and go to the bathroom and then brush your teeth, By then it is 9:30 and he says his good nights. NOW he will start bushing back the second we say it is time for bed.... no it is not time for bed it is not 9:30 yet... i still have 30 minutes. Tonight I was not even home when he went to bed. He had to get up come out and get mad becasue he had to go to bead earlier tonight because he did not get to bed until 10 last night. UHHHHHH this is so horrible!!!! he starts yelling and fighting .... and I just dread this part of the night......


Does anyone have any advice? I have thougth about the bath thing but just getting him in a shower itself is like bulling teeth. Is this normal???

PLEASE HELP!!!!

It has been a crazy week.....

Wow it has really been crazy since the last time I blogged. Well lets see where to I begin............

Well since I have blogged last I am still trying to get used to my Byetta medication. I went from the 5 pen to the 10 pen. I did not think there would be that much of a difference but ohh man!!! I do feel better about life and I know that I have lost more weight. I have also been alot more nauseous :( I am doing some trial and error things and I think I figured it out... I am not eating any carbohydrates at all for breakfast and that is when I feel the most sick. I took my blood sugar after eating a hard boiled egg and some carrots and found my blood sugar to be 114...so it was LOW... that is why I am feeling sick. So I had some rice crackers and felt great!!!

My son went and saw his Dr. and they are going to be treating him for ADD and/or ADHD. The Dr. put my son on Concerta. He has been on it for about two weeks and there is little change. We will be going back to the Dr. next week and my suspicion is that he will up the dose and see how Bubba does. He is still bouncing off the walls and not able to carry on a full conversation with out skipping around. It has been a really long road and I am glad that we are finally getting things under control. We have tried diet and we have tried behavior modifications and the Dr really wants to get him to be proactive, be able to function and be productive for Middle School in September. The Dr. did do some blood work to check his blood sugar and his tyroid (because he is gaining weight quickly). It was the first time he had ever had to have his blood drawn :( He was more of a trooper then I was.

I am actually trying to take a down week to just kind of mellow out a little bit. I have been feeling really bad that I have not been able to spend much time with the family and I am trying to look at my week and see what days I can protect and be family time and what other days where I am running around like my head is cut off.....

An interesting evening

Well last night was a rather interesting evening. I had gotten a call earlier in the day yesterday from our home group leader and she was wanting to talk to my husband and I. I kind of had a feeling I knew why and was anxious to go and talk with them.

There has been a dispute going on for the last month between me and a friend of mine. There is this unexplainable tension between us and I have tried to contact her so we could resolve it but she would not ever return any of my messages.

So last night while I was at my home group leaders house we decided to call my friend and see if she wanted to come over and talk. My friend did decide to come over and talk. So she came over and we went for a walk. We did not even get to the school before she started yelling and demeaning me. There was nothing I could say. When I started to say something she would accuse me of yelling at her and she would get even move violent. She kept spewing profanity and negativity. After a while I was just in awe as to how much anger and hurt can come spewing out of her mouth. I figured that it would have to stop and we would get to the bottom of what is going on. Well that did not happen, once the spewing stopped she just turned and walked back to the house making fun of me because I was crying because of all the hurtful things that were said.

I sucked it up and went back into the house and then she acted as though there was nothing going on. So I wiped away any of the tears that snuck out of my eyes and went out back to finish visiting with everyone that was there. we did continue to visit, with her totally acting as though I was not there. I had a feeling that my friend and her husband were waiting for me to leave but I was not going to leave until they were gone. After my friend and her husband left I just broke down and cried. I could not keep it in any longer. I let them know exactly what was said. They were kind of shocked because they were under the impression that she had reconciled.

At this point there is nothing that I can do. I have went to her and I have tried to find out what the issue is and she did not tell me. She has decided that she wants to carry the anger around and that is her choice. I feel sorry for her that she feels she has to do that.

What a wonderful day!

Wow what a really nice day it has turned out to be. Last night was really great we spent some really well needed some good ole' fashioned family time. We went to our local Borders book store and we each picked out a good book, took it home and started reading. We need more relaxing time like this.

I am excited to start taking my newer dose of my Byetta I can't wait to see if it will truly help me to loose weight faster and I can't even comprehend feeling better.