Fate?

I've had several friends mention that I haven't updated my blog lately- very accurate! There are several reasons- our whole family has been consumed with politics. For those of you who don't know, Liam's dad is a State Representative and we just went through his first (hopefully of many) reelection campaign. So the whole family has been busy with campaign activities all fall. Liam spent a lot of time on his scooter and skateboard out knocking on doors with his dad. The second reason is that as far as Liam's TS goes, we've pretty much been in a holding pattern. He's doing well on his meds, school is going ok, he's been busy with activities- so there hasn't been much to write about.  I'm excited to say that I have something to write about!

Back in April after Liam got diagnosed I decided to find him a therapist to work with. I found a therapist who we LOVE who works with kids and does a lot of art and play therapy- which is perfect for Liam. They built up a really nice relationship. Then a little over a month ago a friend who reads my blog asked me if I'd give a friend of hers a call. Her friend had just recently gotten her daughter's TS diagnosis. We had a great talk and she mentioned that her daughter had gotten into a program where they were working with TS kids and doing habit reversal training, and best of all, they take insurance!

My big fear was figuring out how to take a break from Liam's current therapist to get him into this program. One of Liam's largest anxieties is change. I was afraid to rip him away from this relationship he'd built to try something new. Thankfully, the timing was perfect. The next time we went to his therapist's office, she asked if she could talk to me alone before we brought Liam in. She let me know that she was leaving the group she was with to go out on her own and that she was having a problem with our particular insurance company and it might be a little while before she could clear it up. I let her know about my conversation with the other mom and she was so happy that we'd found something. We were able to talk to Liam about it together and let him know that we thought it would be good for him to try this new type of therapy.

I spoke to the new doctor the other day. We're going to set up an intake interview within the next couple of weeks. Liam will be working on identifying when he's going to have a tic and work on generating a competing response so that the tics will be less severe. I have a lot of hope that this will help Liam with not only his tics, but the other problems that go along with TS.