I Wish There Were Another Way

But I Don't Know What Else to Do...

Annie started developing a facial tick. At first, I thought it was due to allergies because it involved her nose. If you told her to stop, she would. It's been going on for quite a while actually. And the poor kid, I didn't know it was a side effect of her medicine, Risperdone. I kept telling her to go blow her nose. Then when we were at the doc to evaluate we found out it was from the medicine.

We took her off the Risperdone. The doc wanted to see how she'd do with no meds before we tried something new. Oh my. Looking back at how she was when we started putting her on meds a few years ago, I saw her go back to the same irradict behavior over night. It is constant, and there is nothing to say or do to make it stop. She's irrational, and snaps instantly. She's much more moody and sensitive, and goes from happy to raging in the blink of an eye. It makes me wonder how we would have survived if they had not convinced me to try her on meds in the first place. Seeing this now, it makes me feel like we've been living in a dream world.

So the doc is going to have to try a new med for her. I don't know yet what it will be. I just think it's such a sad world where we have little kids on meds just so they can get through the day. Getting through a whole life takes counseling, constant supervision, and probably never really having true independence. If only her birth mother could understand what those drinks she had during pregnancy did to this beautiful little girl! People who drink or use drugs of any sort should have to face some sort of charges for the damage they are doing to these precious little people. It just makes you want to cry!

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