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A Good Day

I'm at gymnastics with the girls so I don't know what is going on at home with Ewen and DH. But I will tell you that today so far with Ewen has been good. I'll start with the bad...he still can't swallow his food properly because it the "lump" in his throat. But aside from that, today he was comfortable in his own skin, enough so that I was able to set better video game and screen limits. He was much happier and hopeful. We picked up his friend from school and they played Agario and "ruled the server" together. They went on a bike ride and also raced bikes up and down our street. I gave him only quarters of propranolol since he wasn't anxious and because I didn't want him to get tired and depressed. I'm sure the Prozac is helping his anxiety already. Maybe it helps that I give him 8 scoops of inositol a day too.
Yesterday he was zombie-tired so I held off giving him the Prozac and he is going to take it at 7pm tonight instead of he morning. I chose that time because he had been taking it at 9am then is has been exhausted 3 he's later at noon. So if it does the same at 7pm he will be exhausted at 10pm. I hope it doesn't do anything weird to his sleep.

I'm about to take the girls home now. Hopefully he'll be able to eat his dinner without too much stomping and nodding his head etc. (his coping mechanism for swallowing). And he is supposed to take another bah tonight! Hope it goes well again.

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