Kevin's Watch

Seareach wrote:Me. Meh! I stayed up far too late last night playing WoW and now I've been playing it for four hours this evening and I should really do something far more constructive!!! Besides, I need help. Everything I do ends up with me dead at the moment! Luci, Creator...somebody!??!?!?!

Haha. I spent 20 minutes this morning before I went to work this morning on a walk about and got ambushed by a snow leopard. I was hitting the keys to fight back but didn't notice that my dialogue box was open. So I yelled "1212121211112" and ran. I did manage to get away.

I feel apprehensive and relieved today.

Pediatrician thinks my son potentially has an autism spectrum disorder. He's referred me to a pediatric neurologist to make the final diagnosis. I just have to wait a few days to make sure the referral gets there so I can make an appointment. Of course, this has to happen 5 days before I'm supposed to leave out of state for a week and a half!

jazz

JazFusion wrote:I feel apprehensive and relieved today.

Pediatrician thinks my son potentially has an autism spectrum disorder. He's referred me to a pediatric neurologist to make the final diagnosis. I just have to wait a few days to make sure the referral gets there so I can make an appointment. Of course, this has to happen 5 days before I'm supposed to leave out of state for a week and a half!

I'm impressed.
Your son's pediatrician is on the ball, even knew the proper specialist to refer y'all to. That's still rare nowadays.

Keep us updated.

Hugs to everyone and good luck jaz. I'm in a good mood today which is surprising considering I slept like crap and I woke up with a headache. But heck, the sun is shining, birds are winging and singing, life is sweet in the sunny city of San Francisco.

Thanks everyone.

I'm feeling so much better. I told my husband everything and he said, "So what if he's autistic? It doesn't matter". It might sound dumb, but it meant so much to me to know he loves us, and will stick with us through thick and thin. We're going to be ok.

Now, I just need to stop being lazy and get on some chores.

JazFusion wrote:Thanks everyone.

I'm feeling so much better. I told my husband everything and he said, "So what if he's autistic? It doesn't matter". It might sound dumb, but it meant so much to me to know he loves us, and will stick with us through thick and thin. We're going to be ok.

Smart man.
Some parents never reach that point.
If your child should have a disorder, it should make no difference in your love and relationship with them.
S/he is still the same child you loved before any differences was given a name. A diagnosis does not change the people involved.

Like grief, there is a multi-step process towards accepting a diagnosis for oneself or one's child. But, I figure we can talk about that only if a diagnosis is given.

You're doing great.
I'm proud of you.

Oh, Jaz. . . I'm glad that you are going to have some answers finally. Remember that we are all here for you. . . and like your husband and Menolly have said, the fact that your son may have autism isn't a sentence of doom, and doesn't mean that your love for your child will change.

Damelon wrote:

Seareach wrote:Me. Meh! I stayed up far too late last night playing WoW and now I've been playing it for four hours this evening and I should really do something far more constructive!!! Besides, I need help. Everything I do ends up with me dead at the moment! Luci, Creator...somebody!??!?!?!

Haha. I spent 20 minutes this morning before I went to work this morning on a walk about and got ambushed by a snow leopard. I was hitting the keys to fight back but didn't notice that my dialogue box was open. So I yelled "1212121211112" and ran. I did manage to get away.

HAHAHAHAHA! I reckon your "1212121211112" probably totally flummoxed the snow leopard and instead of it chasing you it just sat there thinking WTF!

SoS is at kinder today. I'm debating whether I do some work or I play WoW! I KNEW it! I just KNEW it! Once I started I knew I wouldn't be able to stop!!!!!

I f*cking hate working with backstabbing, gossiping women. It drives me insane.

seareach staggers out of WoW....

...I'm addicted...

...and now they're doing scheduled maintenance....

...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

probably a good thing otherwise I might have stayed up all night playing it...shame I didn't do any of the things I was supposed to do today while SoS was at kinder but heh... I had fun!

I am feeling a little better today. I heard from my older sister in Scotland, and that always cheers me up. She and I talked for a long time, and I guess that since she's so removed from everything that's happening here, it's a little easier for her to get a better perspective on things. While she was horrified about what's been happening lately, she reminded me of how many similar tragedies we went through growing up. Living in the country and having a sympathetic mother who constantly let me take in strays of any kind, I loved and lost a lot of pets. Either do to coyote's, sickness, motor vehicles, or whatever the reason. She reminded me that I shouldn't forget to be grateful that I had them in my life to start with. She also noted the fact that after I lost the other two, Elizabeth has become much more attentive of her own puppy. Speaking of which, I'm about to get ready and head back to the vet's office, (Harold and I are now on a first name basis). Moonie isn't getting better as quickly as I'd like so we're going to try some antibiotics in addition the pedialyte milkshakes I've been making for her. He's also going to see about giving her some different medication for her eyes since they're still weepy. My foot is less sore, and I even went to the grocery store yesterday, so, all is looking up. I will let you know how things go, but keep your fingers crossed eh?

Glad to hear you're up and around, thefirst!

And Jazz: Sounds like you and your boy are going to have all the support you need -- that's so fabulous.

Here? Hard to complain. Spring is here -- the cherry trees are starting to bloom! I got my rent increase letter yesterday and I think I'll only be paying about $50 more per month (a nice change from the three-digit increases I'd been receiving at the last place...). All the schools here are on spring break, so traffic was ridiculously light this morning. I've rescheduled the Spain trip *again*, and everyone I know is under strict orders: no trauma for the next five weeks!

Feeling better this morning, but concerned for someone special in my life.

I am happy today. I told my boss about the pregnancy and she was very happy for me. I was worried that it would be a problem because she is kind of a nazi but no, she was really cool with it.

I added a 2 gig memory thingy to my laptop. It's much much faster now - i feel complete (yeah - geeky things do it for me)

Back on medication. Doctor has ordered. I obeyed.

Vain wrote:I added a 2 gig memory thingy to my laptop. It's much much faster now - i feel complete (yeah - geeky things do it for me)

Surprising how much difference adding a stick of RAM to a computer makes. You sometimes don't even realise how slow it was until you give it a bit extra and see the improvement (as with my old laptop when I doubled the RAM).


I feel accomplished. I just finished swapping the power supply on my computer (gone 250W from to 380W) and adding a 500GB hard disk. It was tough (the processor fan and the PCI graphics card were blocking all the slots for the hard disk, and the new power supply had twice as many cables as the old one) but I finally got it going. It's the biggest bit of hardware fiddling I've done so far (previously: pushing RAM or graphics cards into slots).
Now I'm just waiting for Windows to format all 500GB of the disk so I can start using it.

Hello hello hello!

To all my Watchie buddies and those new folks who popped up while I was in hiding.

After a long period of instrospection and personally imposed solitude I am apringing from the ground like a daffodil.

It's good to be back!

-lorelei

Welcome back Lorelei!
And I've seen Skyweir around too!

Yay!!