Okay, the good news is that Hayes is doing well and I am feeling better about that. He says his goal for this semester is to get to bed by 10:30 and up early in the morning. He says that he has been able to do that so far. He says he's the first one to go to bed at night in his apartment and the first one up in the morning. He says it's a different experience, being up in the morning before everybody else. This is a side of Hayes we've never seen before! He seems to be doing well and feeling good about his classes.
But if it's not one thing, it's another. Brigham has really been worrying me for a couple days. He's been on this new medication, Adderall, along with Hayes. He's been on it for two months and it seems to be working good for him. Since school started, though, he's been having trouble. It only lasts eight hours and so it wears off about the time it's time for him to start his homework. The past couple days he gets home from school, starts his homework, does it for 30 minutes, goes to move pipe. When he gets home from moving pipe it's completely worn off and he kind of crashes and finds it VERY difficult to get his homework done. He says it feels impossible.
The past couple days he's been very emotional and tearful, which is not like him. He says he just wants to be like everybody else and be able to keep up and do well in school. He says he hates the way he feels when he comes down from his pill.
He didn't take his pill yesterday and basically slept most of the day, didn't go to school. He was very lethargic and wouldn't talk to us. By evening I was pretty frantic. I made an appointment for him at his doctor tomorrow.
This morning he woke up and seemed a bit better. He got dressed and went to school.
Aaaaargh, mothering is too hard. I don't know what to do to help my son. I'm worried about him.
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