It's been a day today, but I'm finally feeling like I'm getting things stabilized and in a pattern.
Today was son's first visit with new neuro. And it was just amazing. The first amazing thing was that son completely "saw" and accepted the new doctor. Including interaction and making it clear that he liked this doctor. That is a complete first for him and worth solid gold/platinum/titanium/diamonds/whatever. He even truly tried to do the things that the doctor asked him to do. I'm going to say that I went slightly brainless from shock.
It normally takes son weeks to months to "see" and accept new people. And new doctors, who he only sees every few months, can take years.
The neuro explained why he was in metabolic acidosis and why it was nothing to worry about at this time. He had me review with him what changes the seizure med had brought about so that he knew where things were at now. Then we went over son's migraines and exactly how he communicates them, and what the steps for treatment were before. And then the med change which did not work. And he has a different med to recommend. This one is a daily tablet with minimal side effects. He went over son's history of migraine and seizure meds which led to a bombshell. The med that triggered son's grand mal is known for being problematic for those with autism.
I'm going to focus on the positive, that med proved his seizures. His prior doctor had decided that since he had never had a grand mal, he didn't have seizures. So not going into that.
Anyways, we have to wait for insurance approval on the new med, which can take up to a month. So he restarted the meds for the old prescriptions. Honestly, the new one works, as I told him, but it stops working the instant it's out of son's system. It doesn't handle whatever the trigger is. The old set up did but has bad long term side effects for the kidney and liver. With the new daily med, we will hopefully have fewer migraines which will lead to not needing to use the other drugs as often. I would be happy to go a week, or two, or even longer, with no migraines popping up for him. I bet he would as well.
This doctor has the trifecta that son needed. He knows seizures, migraines, and autism. And I am so glad we found him. And I swear that I'm going to share his information with the other parents looking for someone like that. Son was, over an hour later, still trying to do the tasks that the doctor asked of him. Which led to some really hilarious episodes of foot stomping at random.
And then I came home to work. And work was actually quick and easy. Boss and I worked some things out. And hopefully next week I can get the last of the work pile-up cleared out. That will definitely help with stress levels. I'm getting tired of long weeks. The paychecks are nice and will go a long way to helping with the downtime after surgery, but my brain is tired.
And creating construction estimates uses a completely different part of the brain from doing bookkeeping. It's kind of like music vs math. So I've found that when my brain is completely tired of the books, it can relax some while working the estimates. And the difficult person is trying to prove that my estimates are off, so he pushed for me to duplicate one of the old ones for a job that has been completed. Except it looks like my estimate will be in line with what the job actually cost, whereas his was way under the actual job cost. It's kind of an ouch and doesn't look good for him because that's one of the reasons that the boss was looking somewhere else. But I also do a very, maybe insanely, detailed estimate. Because the plan is that supplies will be ordered from that and be ready for pick-up on the first day. And no more every day runs to get supplies.
But for now... I'm going to throw dinner in the oven, let the brain relax, and find some beat 'em up movies to watch.
