Re: need some opinions/aZ

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Hey you,

First take that word "overprotective" out of your vocabulary! When

a mother loves her child and is concerned, your mother instincts are

always right.

Always, always be involved in Justens life. No one else is going

to .............if you have to personelly meet with every staff member

to get his meds changed to the proper dosages I would do it. Stay on

top of things, because it sounds like they aren't. Is there a director

of nursing.?

The movie thing I back you on 110%! I don't let jeremy see R rated

movies and he is 18.

The one thing I've learned and never forgotten is if you don't

advocate for your child no one else will. Good Luck!

Love, Becky

azToy2@... wrote:

Okay, I am wanting everyone's opinion on this

because I am trying not to be an over protective parent. Our oldest son

Justen was here for the weekend, which I must say went VERY well.

Anyway, he happened to mention to my nephew that the one thing that he

likes better about the group home is that they let him watch R rated

movies. I asked him exactly what movies he was talking about and he

told us all about the movies Scary movie three and also one called Bad

Santa. Now I have not seen these movies but what he described along

with what some friends of mine told me was some pretty sick stuff for a

15 year old kid with serious emotional delays to be seeing. Also, he

is supposed to take 11/2 mgs of risperdol at night. When they first had

him start he was taking a 1 mg tablet and then they cut a second one in

half. Last Monday when I took him to the med DR he changed it to a 3mg

tablet so they just have to cut one pill in half and that is it. When I

tried to give him his meds Sat night he argued with me for about an

hour that I wasn't giving him enough and that he needed a whole one

with the half one. I read the bottle and it said just what the DR had

told me. SOOO I called the group home and the man that answered said

that he doesn't know about the meds but that he will put a note on

Justen's chart that he can't watch R rated movies. I told him that I

had counted the pills and he is six short so YES the HAD been over

medicating him. Also I told him that seeing how my son is 15 years old

I am pretty sure that it is against the law for them to let him watch

nasty movies without having parental consent which I told him they

shouldn't bother asking for in the future because they wouldn't get it.

Do you guys think I am over reacting? I know that I have been very

emotional lately and wonder if I am making a bigger deal of this than

it is.

a

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