griffinej5
Posted : 6/10/2010 9:45:18 AM
rwbeagles
Sad today. My grandma lost her man yesterday. They were engaged. He took his own life...we don't know why. He was sick, lung cancer and other things...but still. I am trying not to dwell on the why, only think of how to support my abuelita from so far away...
Trying to find a way for my Mom to go to Cali to see her, but the airfares are ridiculous. *sigh* We will find a way tho...
Cleo was acting odd last night...tore her way out of her crate and cried and cried...I let her out and she RAN to have some lovely explosive diarreah in the yard. No idea why...keeping an eye on her today but so far she seems normal. Gave her some Tums last night just in case.
Soldier has decided not to eat again. He is SO tiny and I am frustrated because his appetite switch seems messed up...he is too small to miss meals. But, you can only do what you can do.
Hope folks have a better day than me!
I am so frustrated on behalf of a client today. He got up and went to school yesterday, but he wouldn't go in. When he finally got in, he ended up leaving early (because he got so upset). Today he wouldn't get up and go. He's had a project to do that is due on Friday. He's been working on it, and was just about done. Some teacher decided he couldn't possibly have done it himself, so he has to redo it. Of course, he refused to get up this morning. I'm sure he won't want to go tomorrow. His mom can't get to work on time because he won't go to school. He finally did get up today, his mom told him he didn't have to go in on time, if he got up and got to work on his project. I helped him with it two weeks ago or so. Note the word helped. I stayed after school with him in the library. He dictated to me what to type, because I type far faster than he does. It was also recommended by one of his doctors that, if it helps him to learn and get things done, we should just do that for him (and he can practice typing when there isn't a time constraint). If we had done it for him, well, it would have looked like 4 different people wrote it, because that's how many of us helped him do this thing. Seriously, I have done more for plenty of other people. I did the graphs and almost dictated exactly what a friend should write on one of her projects, and she's in grad school. I sat there and told her what words to use, and she decided how to phrase the sentences. I typed for her two because I type much faster than she does, and since she was at my house bugging me and panicking, and I just wanted to get her to stop bugging me, I did it. Later on when she had other stuff, and didn't wait till the last minute, I walked her through and taught her how to do it, but that time, she had poor instructions, and really had no clue what to do. It so happened that her project was within an area I know very well. I felt this morning like at that point, though he wouldn't have let us, that we should have done it for him. If it were my project, his instructions said to summarize every 3-4 pages of the book, I would have never done that. He did it every 4 pages, and refused, even when the 5th page had only a sentence or two he refused to include it with the previous. I think that would have been a good indicator that it was written by an autistic person, and not a typical person.