Had a meeting with his team from the hospital and the mental health clinic that is working with daughter and grandson today. It was a good meeting. Grandson will be released on a conditional release on Thursday evening. YAY! If daughter has any issues with him that she cannot handle, she can bring him back to the hospital without going through the ER through Monday. If the weekend goes alright, he will be discharged on Monday.

He has made some small improvements since being admitted. His blow outs aren't lasting as long or being quite as intense. This is not to say that he isn't having them, because he has at least 2 a day. Sometimes he has to go into seclusion until he regains his control, sometimes he doesn't. He has been more verbal in the respect of being able to discuss what is bothering him which is a good thing.

For weeks they have been trying to help him to redirect with something to do and he has turned down everything but this one thing.....to write poetry! He finds he enjoys writing poetry and he's not bad at it at all. He's written 2 poems so far, one was about "young love" and one about "rejection". The psychiatrist was so impressed with the rejection poem that she took it around to her fellow employees to share it. She thought that it may have been a song he had heard and was trying to get one over on her, but she tried looking up the words and nothing came up. So they are his own words. I'm so proud of him! He is also very proud of his writing as well. Finally, something he is doing that he is proud of!!! He needed this so badly.

The psychiatrist has taken away his diagnosis of bipolar! My daughter is very pleased with that. His two official dx'es are ODD and ADHD. Unfortunately, they have not come up with a drug combination that seems to help him very much though. Of course, my daughter is adament about med amounts and what kinds of meds as well. I just hope she's not biting her nose off to spite her face at this point on the meds.

The mental health team are going to his school with daughter on Friday to discuss with them what is needed for grandson to have a better chance at succeeding these last 2 months of school. Also, they will be getting on them about his IEP which has not been followed as it should have been. He's supposed to have a 1:1 aide for 6 hours a day and they have never supplied on to him. I'm really ticked off about that. But, it will change now! Hopefully it's not too little too late. Psychiatrist will also be available by phone for the conference if she is needed to really drive home what his issues are.

A very hard thing that daughter found out today was that she is basically the reason that grandson is the way he is. It was not meant as a slam. How they said it and what they said was to get her to realize that some of her behaviors have not helped grandson at all. They mentioned a couple of things that I have been telling her for years and trying to get her to stop, but she never took me seriously. *sigh* So, needless to say, she is upset that she hasn't really helped her son but hurt him more. Hopefully this is the eye opener that she needs to be able to make some changes in her behavior that will only better herself and her two sons in the long run.

All in all, it was a good meeting and I feel some relief at this time. I just hope it lasts and he does not fall thru the cracks once again!!