Bonnie, I think the mother needs to be seeing a professional with kids, especially one with ADD/ADHD/ASD kids. (Because no matter how stubborn and angry she's being, she's also not wrong that you can't know. You can't. No non-parent can. I thought I did, but nope. I didn't. So she needs, as Msbelle suggested, to have that not be something she can respond with.)

I tried to give her a referral before we even started working together, and am at the point of wanting to refer her again. It will have to be handled really carefully, given the tenuous nature of her hold on 'help.'

I fear she will take the suggestion as me giving up...which isn't entirely without merit. I'm not giving up on the potential for change but on my ability to facilitate it.

I'm sorry, ita. This is, as you well know, so damn fucked. And finding the energy to manage it is nearly as hard as the disease itself. I'm glad your current neuro at least admits pain is a responsibility of his to manage.

Anyway, sympathy from a slightly less fucked continent of Migraine World. (I'm currently attempting to force Former Paradise to actually *give me* the disability insurance specified in the benefits list.)

I have nothing to offer but sincere sympathy; if you want, feel free to e-me and I can give you a list of the newest meds my specialists want to try on the very remote offchance there's something you haven't tried.

I didn't know it was a movable feast, like Easter.

The Hebrew calendar is a lunar one, which is why Nilly's birthday is...I don't know when it is, and I feel like a bad person.

My migraine specialist is less effective than I'd like, but he's my third specialist, and definitely my favourite, and I really don't want a fourth. I have a new preventative to try, and hopefully that arrives soon (shipped from Canada).

It's not movable the same way Easter is, Connie, it's just on a calendar that isn't 365 days long.

Quick brown fox, but only one dog: [link]

World's smallest readable font: [link] 5 pixels!

Serial: Betsy!

I will totally hit you up on your profile address.

Quick brown fox, but only one dog: [link]

Adorable!

World's smallest readable font: [link] 5 pixels!

Huh, I can read it, but it hurts and I don't mean that figuratively.

It's not movable the same way Easter is, Connie, it's just on a calendar that isn't 365 days long.

Ah, I see! Thank you.

5 pixels? Man. Readable by some.

I love the first comment under the fox video says "this is the kind of things they start religions over." Love it.

waves at Betsy (softly, quietly in a way that won't set off her head.)