Better Morning?

Even though he said that getting out of bed was like getting out of a black hole, Ewen still seemed in better spirits this morning than the last few days. Maybe it helped that I told him right as he opened his eyes that his friend had texted and face-timed him twice already and that his other friend, Rich, was coming over at 10:30. But after he got out of the "black hole" he took his 5mg of propranolol (because he wakes up with anxiety). Then played some Ag.ario (his other calming drug). We all went out on the trampoline after about 20 minutes of screen time. It was he and I and his two sisters. We kicked the small, soft ball around the trampoline for half and hour and had a bit of fun. He wasn't his usual over energetic and happy self. But he wasn't depressed either. He was hanging in there and only a little lethargic at the end. He seemed like he had a little fun too. Then he came in side and played more Ag.ario. His friend is here now and Rich, is such a welcome distraction,

This morning, before Mike went to work, Ewen sat with us on the couch and told us  how his teacher told his class that when they had testing they were not allowed to get up from their desks. He said that last year his fourth grade teacher said that they were allowed to go to the bathroom if they needed to, but this year, Ms. L said that they couldn't move during testing. He seemed pretty irritated and it made me think about how teachers say all sorts of things like that to their students. Perhaps it is different when it is the teacher you have all day who says these things, instead of the one science teacher you have for 45 minutes. Maybe it is harder to deal with a stressful personality from morning till mid-afternoon. I don't know.

His Dr. from the University Child Psychology group called and I told him that we decided to stop the Lexapro. He said that seemed like a prudent decision and we would talk about other options at our appt. this afternoon. Ewen doesn't know we have an appt. yet. I hope he doesn't tank when I tell him. I'll hold off for a while. He seems to go down hill from 6pm onwards Perhaps even earlier and the appt is at 4pm.

I'm hoping that stopping the Lexapro will help get him back on track. I ordered some books from Amazon.com and overnighted them. These are the books:

The book, Anxiety-Free kids, was recommended to me this morning by a mom I spoke to on the phone. Owen had been invited to play video games at his friend's house. His friend has aspergers and apparently his older brother suffers from anxiety. I had to say that Ewen couldn't go over there because of what is happening with him. His mom told me that she understood and that the Bonnie Zucker book very much helped her son. So, we should get it in the mail tomorrow along with these other ones that gots lots of shining starts in the review section. 

I'm hoping that we are over the hill now and on the other side of all of this.