After waiting five months after our initial Tourette’s appointment with a top UCLA doc, we finally had our follow up on Monday.\u00a0I was relieved, and unsettled, about the final outcome.<\/p>\n
The good:<\/strong><\/p>\n The bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n I shouldn’t look at stuff as “good” or “bad.” They just “are”. By putting my emotions on it, I’m not helping to process anything. I need to learn to detach. But come on, I can only grow so much at a time. Moving on.<\/p>\n Here are some of the doctors’s thoughts:<\/p>\n It doesn’t get much better than that, right? And yet, I have my reservations. These reservations don’t stem from suffering from “I don’t want to face a diagnosis” disorder.\u00a0I am willing to get to the bottom of this quagmire so we can treat Stink’s symptoms and move on with a happy life.<\/p>\n But… but… I have another theory that I’d like to try out before we go down medication highway. I’ll share it with you on my next post.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I’m off to make sure I get the support I need during this understandably overwhelming period of life for me: Prayer group, therapy, exercise, friends… whatever it takes! Time to be strong for me so I can be strong for everyone else!<\/p>\n And again, Stink has no problems at all with any of this. It’s me who takes it to heart. Given that, I feel a few more months is not going to kill Stink’s future if we decide to hold out on drugs a bit longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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