Well, as most of you know, we've been having a hard time with Ricky for a while. Around the end of last year he started being very angry and spiteful and aggressive. When he was in the hospital in February they actually gave him a diagnosis: adjustment disorder with emotional features. Whatever that means. I didn't find out about this till last week.
You might recall that a couple of months ago I took him to a psychologist who decided without even seeing him that he had ADHD, which I basically rejected as being beside the point -- even if he does have it, that's not what's bugging him at the moment.
Anyway, the past couple of months he's been even more aggressive at school, doing things like attacking kids at preschool (including his brother -- he threw shovelsful of sand in Andy's face last week) for no reason. And talking about killing people, chopping off their heads, and things like that. The teachers have been working with him but a few weeks ago I decided he needed more help.
We think that a lot of Ricky's anxiety and acting out might be caused by his health being worse this year. (Just a refresher, he was in the hospital for a tuneup in February and in for sinus surgery in March.)
Our insurance does cover psychological stuff with the exception of ADHD. They mainly cover "disorders," which it sounds like he has. We finally found out what to do to get him evaluated (took three weeks for the pediatrician to get around to calling us back, but she called me herself and apologized so I am not too mad... LOL). All we had to do was call the behavioral health insurance division and ask for help. They told me that he can go to Stanford -- hooray! Which is where he has two of his other specialists. Early this coming week the folks at Psychiatry Intake at Stanford are supposed to call me to make an appointment for a full evaluation. They probably can't see him till November. But it will be worth it.
We're gonna help this little guy. He is so wonderful and so worth it. Thanks for listening...
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