Feeling a bit better today. Stink stayed home as well yesterday so we watched some tv, napped and drank artificial tic inducing cocoa which, of course, did not make him tic at all. (I can't figure this TS thing out, and sometimes I'm done trying. My main goal is to get him on a course of focus, and I'm close enough I can taste it! No, that's the hot chocolate. Never mind.)

Thursday I'm taking Stink over to the Brain Balance Center for a 2 hour diagnostic to see what parts of his brain are understimulated. (See post below.) They are going to give him a bunch of motor tests. The next day it's a one hour cognitive/academic test. The idea is that in doing specific exercises you can "stimulate the more underdeveloped hemisphere of the brain." Change is possible due to the plasticity of the brain. While drugs are an option of course, often they dull the symptoms but don't get to the root cause. I'm really thinking, based on so much research I've done, that if we can find the "root cause" and work on that, we'll be so much better off. We'll see!

I don't know if I will buy the whole 12 week "brain activity fix your kid" package, but at least I'll have a good idea after the initial consultation what areas he is lacking in. I can use that information to either go the natural route via Brain Balance or head toward the drug route through UCLA.  I can show the "diagnostic information" to the good doc at UCLA, he can tell me what he thinks, and we can go from there!

All this is timing out beautifully and I'm quite happy.

My son, on the other hand, just asked if I wanted to "come in and cuddle with him" which I can't ignore. If doing brain balance activities knocks the sweet out of him, I'm not going to be happy!

But I can always be joyful. And so can you. Here's what the kids have to say on that. (For some reason I can't get that pretty box to show up in my blog post, so you'll just have to click on the boring YouTube link for viewing pleasure!)
http://www.youtube.com/user/andreapaventi#p/u/0/LgnnXqlOWqA
 


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Irishmama7
11/08/2011 19:36

Oooo I love the video and if you ever need someone to join you for cocoa I would love to. I am a few thousand miles away but eh? I love the video! It made me feel right at home and fall in love with your family all over.

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andrea frazer link
11/08/2011 20:38

@Irish - Thank you! You are welcome to stop by my REAL home anytime. Unless you're a weirdo. But even then, if you bring lattes, I'll welcome you.

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