I have 4 children my 13 year old son has been mentally challenged since birth, brought him to Boston Childrens to get best medical treatment and still no one has any real answers. Doctors and Schools have given him every diagnosis that has an initial in it. Our family has gone through medication side effects that have almost killed my son and intense involvement for many years. I have fought Schools and intake people who say there is nothing that shows he needed to be place in institutions (after trying to set fires in his room) and them telling me that if I didn't take my son with me they would file a 51A, They finally would admit him after I told them to file it because I wasn't taking him home that he was a danger to himself and others. The Hospitals would ask me very shortly after admission," How have you done this at home by yourself for so long?". I told them you just do, day by day. He is still in residential treatment and it is going on the second year now and Improvement is minimal but some. I really didn't think I could make it through anymore, It was like not being alive and being a failure for my son. I thought things would get better but now we have the 15 year old who is giving me such a run for my money that I am very close to filing a CHINS on him cause I don't know what else to do, he was never a big problem always a pretty regular kid with trying to strech rules ect., now we have blow outs everyday in the home. Tells me he is going to do what he wants and I don't own him and that I'm nothing but a control freak. I know they say God gives you what you can handle, but I don't know how much more of this I can take. I am poor and cannot send him to a camp or get him into one of those 30 day programs that can help and we have tried all the common answers, counseling, guidance at school and talking when he is calm. Any thoughts are really needed
Thanks for the Time
Cocoa
