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Ch-ch-changes…..
I could swear I’ve titled a post with this title before. Anyways….. Just a brief update as to why I’ve been so quiet. Tim is home. Permanently. For many reasons, we had him discharged from his RTC last week, without all the planning and setup that would normally go into transitioning from RTC back…
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Coming Home – Eventually
“When is my next home visit?” That’s the first thing Tim asks when we talk on the phone nightly. Even the night of the afternoon Tom dropped him back at RTC after his holiday home visit, the first question was about when he could come home again. And we’re working on the plan to start…
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RTFM
Tim is coming home this Sunday for a few days. This is his first home visit since his transfer to Allendale, thirty days ago. The honeymoon is already over at the RTC. Last week he hit a classmate, slammed a door so hard it hit a teacher’s aide, and threatened a housemate. Sigh. But what…
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He’s All Moved!
We got Tim successfully moved from OTDC to his new RTC the week after Memorial Day. It was quite the Memorial Day Weekend. I drove up Saturday and picked up Tim and a mountain of crap so high I couldn’t believe he had it all in his room. We checked him in to ODTC just…
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Time Is (Not) On My Side
96 days. That‘s how many days I have left until Tim turns 18. That’s how many days in a row I’ll be freaking out as we try and get things set up for the arbitrary change over from him being considered a child to being considered and adult. I didn’t freak out like this when…