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Leaves For Tristan: First ASL Class
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Our first ASL class was last night and it was a total hit! Tristan was fascinated by the other hearing impaired kids. It's not just moving your fingers, it's using your whole body, your face included. When signing "hot," you make a face like you burned yourself. "Eat up" is gestured while your mouth makes the motion for "up," or swallowing, whatever way you look at it. You get to...
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Leaves For Tristan: The Damaged Door
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Friday, July 2, 2010. We've had a bit of a set back. Honestly, I wonder that it isn't because he's just bored. Yesterday, Tristan had one of the worst tantrums he's had in a while. It's doesn't even get close to the ones he had about a year ago, but he still managed to tear up his bedroom door. At the time, I thought he was throwing toys at the door, but he told me today that he was punching it. When I f...
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Leaves For Tristan: ASL, Summer Programs and Chocolate Cake
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Tuesday, June 1, 2010. ASL, Summer Programs and Chocolate Cake. We start ASL tomorrow! Ms C, the play therapist, highly recommended that we find a program for him this summer because he'll get bored with unstructured time and that could be a trigger. It's looking like there's no way out of shelling out $1000 over the summer for the program. Tristan's been relatively irritable lately. Tonight, we went...
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Leaves For Tristan: June 2010
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Saturday, June 19, 2010. Brief Update: More ASL and A New Wooden Sword. Well, I am way. Overdue for an update here. Summer's already been really long and it's just been a few short weeks. I've been working hard keeping Tristan as busy as possible. He was so proud of himself. Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Our first ASL class was last night and it was a total hit! The class was taught by a deaf woman. She d...
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Leaves For Tristan: A Long Overdue Update
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Thursday, October 21, 2010. A Long Overdue Update. I recently had a family member tell me how much this blog meant to her. It really surprised me because I didn't think that many people read it, especially family members. I felt guilty because I've done you guys a real disservice in neglecting to update. I'm going to work hard to be better about that. It was in the morning." He ended up being confine...
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Leaves For Tristan: October 2010
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Thursday, October 21, 2010. A Long Overdue Update. I recently had a family member tell me how much this blog meant to her. It really surprised me because I didn't think that many people read it, especially family members. I felt guilty because I've done you guys a real disservice in neglecting to update. I'm going to work hard to be better about that. It was in the morning." He ended up being confine...
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Leaves For Tristan: New School
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Tristan started at his new school last week. His school is absolutely wonderful. The teachers seem to genuinely care and seemed eager to understand Tristan's particular special needs. I was worried I'd have to prepare for a battle, guns ablazin', ready to fight to get him what he needs. To my shock (and pleasure) none of that will be necessary (yet.). View my complete profile.
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Leaves For Tristan: April 2010
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. School System Fail and the Scary Voodoo Doctor. Overall, I really do think Tristan is doing better. His behavior is still swinging from one extreme to the other, but he's calm and stable more often than he has been in a long time. If he doesn't take his medication right on time. He also didn't understand where Ray went when he was squished by Dr. Facilier. I tried to ex...Appoi...
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Leaves For Tristan: A Tough Week, But A Better Weekend
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Sunday, November 7, 2010. A Tough Week, But A Better Weekend. We had a tough week. Tristan was so high energy this past week, frantically running all over the place, randomly (and rhythmically) ejecting loud bursts of noise (usually roars.) I was so exhausted from dealing with him. I felt terrible because I just had no patience and ended up yelling at him a lot. November 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM.
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Leaves For Tristan: November 2010
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A blog from a mother about her family's struggles and triumphs over childhood onset bipolar disorder. Sunday, November 7, 2010. A Tough Week, But A Better Weekend. We had a tough week. Tristan was so high energy this past week, frantically running all over the place, randomly (and rhythmically) ejecting loud bursts of noise (usually roars.) I was so exhausted from dealing with him. I felt terrible because I just had no patience and ended up yelling at him a lot. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. He was amazed a...
