The good going on right now is that Josh had a job interview for a research assistant position today and he was offered the job. Right now it's part time while he's in class, this could potentially be his summer internship and then eventually a permanent job after he graduates from school. What it also means is that there is a potential for us to be moving permanently down to FL. How do I feel about that? I think I'm OK with it, my biggest concern about moving down there is finding a home that works for us. After owning a home and having space for our son to play and enjoy himself in a back yard that we don't necessarily have to share with anyone else is a big deal. I like the fact that we have privacy where we are now and I can let him out on his own and not have to be on top of him every time he wants to be outside. For now we'll take things one day at a time and I'll continue to encourage Josh to stay on top of his game.
The rough part of things right now is the issues my sister is having with her youngest son. For the longest time he's had mood issues that were just recently diagnosed. She'd been having issues with him at school and the school pretty much insisted that he be put on home instruction. Most of last year ye was on home instruction so this year my sister tried to put him back in school with an addition program outside of school. Things seemed to be going not too bad until yesterday. He had a violent episode at school to the point where they felt he had to be restrained. My sister picked him up from school he went to his challenge program and had an outburst of some kind at the program as well. The instructors at the challenge program had him admitted to the ER for observation and evaluation. When the ER dr. did their physical evaluation they noticed that his arms were bruised from being restrained. They asked my sister if she had restrained him and she told them it wasn't her. So the ER got the department of youth and family services involved and they now have to look into how the school is treating the kids. After all the evaluation was done they diagnosed ADHD as well as his mood disorder. Now my sister has to fight with the school not to have her son put on home instruction. The school counselor called to tell her that it had been decided that he would be put on home instruction and when she spoke to someone from the challenge program she was told that it had been discussed but nothing was set in stone. I asked her about the possibility of getting him a personal teaching assistant through the board of ed and supposedly he has to be diagnosed as special needs/special ed before they will assign him a personal teaching assistant. I really feel bad for my sis and my youngest nephew, the hard part is that with the issues he has he's very abusive toward any one who sets him off.
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