Graduation postponed
It's been unbearably hot and humid here lately, which means that when we walk to the park in the evening, we have to pass through multiple clouds of gnats. This has been a source of anxiety for the boy child, and he told me Tuesday night that he didn't think he was ready to graduate from therapy. I assured him this was fine and that we could continue to see Dr. H as long as we needed to.
So we saw Dr. H the next day, which would have been graduation day, and we explained that the boy was not quite ready yet. And so we're seeing Dr. H again on Monday, which is fine.
What isn't fine is that Dr. H is probably dropping our insurance next month. Apparently he's had a lot of problems with the company that DH's employer uses for mental health coverage and has decided it's not worth the bother. The fact that AS isn't a mental health issue so much as it is a neurological one is a subject I'm too tired to go into right now, but suffice it to say, if the boy child isn't over the bug thing within a month, we're probably going to have to switch therapists. And the supplemental insurance thing that pays for the boy child's occupational therapy dries up next month, too, so the boy will likely be losing two therapists and gaining a new one (we don't think he'll need to continue with OT beyond next month, except for occasional tuneups) all at the same time. Which should be interesting. By which I mean "hellish". We haven't told the boy yet.
Sigh. And how was YOUR day?
Oh, but there is some good news I almost forgot! I was browsing Amazon a while back and came upon an author by the name of Kathy Hoopmann who has written a couple of fiction books for the boy's age group (he's 9 but reads at a much higher level) about a boy with AS. So I bought the first book, Blue Bottle Mystery, and gave it to the boy yesterday. He read it in one sitting and loved it! This is the first fiction book he's ever really liked that much. So I'm going to get him the next one, Of Mice and Aliens. (The girl child got Horton Hatches the Egg, which she loved, so next she'll be getting Horton Hears a Who.)
So we saw Dr. H the next day, which would have been graduation day, and we explained that the boy was not quite ready yet. And so we're seeing Dr. H again on Monday, which is fine.
What isn't fine is that Dr. H is probably dropping our insurance next month. Apparently he's had a lot of problems with the company that DH's employer uses for mental health coverage and has decided it's not worth the bother. The fact that AS isn't a mental health issue so much as it is a neurological one is a subject I'm too tired to go into right now, but suffice it to say, if the boy child isn't over the bug thing within a month, we're probably going to have to switch therapists. And the supplemental insurance thing that pays for the boy child's occupational therapy dries up next month, too, so the boy will likely be losing two therapists and gaining a new one (we don't think he'll need to continue with OT beyond next month, except for occasional tuneups) all at the same time. Which should be interesting. By which I mean "hellish". We haven't told the boy yet.
Sigh. And how was YOUR day?
Oh, but there is some good news I almost forgot! I was browsing Amazon a while back and came upon an author by the name of Kathy Hoopmann who has written a couple of fiction books for the boy's age group (he's 9 but reads at a much higher level) about a boy with AS. So I bought the first book, Blue Bottle Mystery, and gave it to the boy yesterday. He read it in one sitting and loved it! This is the first fiction book he's ever really liked that much. So I'm going to get him the next one, Of Mice and Aliens. (The girl child got Horton Hatches the Egg, which she loved, so next she'll be getting Horton Hears a Who.)
posted by Miss Anthrope at 8:21 PM
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