Tag: inpatient
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Med Change
She’s (I started by saying we, it feels like I’m right there with her, but I am not) been on the same meds since early January. We’ve increased dosages but haven’t played with anything else since April. 100mg of Zoloft. 25 mg of Hydroxyzine 3 times a day. 5 mg of Zyprexa. It’s obviously not…
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Birthdays
Birthdays are hard. I think all holidays are probably hard, but yesterday was her birthday so that’s fresh in my mind. First, she was upset she didn’t get a pass on her birthday. The pass 2 days before did not go the best, so it makes sense to me they didn’t think a pass was…
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First Pass Day
Today she had her first day off from PHP. This was to see how she would cope with eating at home. She was also supposed to stay out of the kitchen while I prepared meals and snacks. I knew this was going to be hard for her eating disorder as it likes to be in…
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Vacationing with Other Kids
Vacations have always been our thing. I love to go, I love to see, I love to do. The girls have definitely been bitten by the travel bug as well. However, the past 18 months it has been impossible to travel thanks to an eating disorder. We have finally made progress the past 3ish month…
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Grocery Shopping
If you have never been grocery shopping with someone with an active eating disorder, consider yourself lucky. I had to take my daughter Sunday. I try to avoid this like the plague. But she left programming early because she didn’t feel good, so she had to eat dinner at our hotel and I was unprepared…
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Fruit is Not a Snack
I’ve read a lot. People say regularly a bad facility can make the ED worse. ERC, Dallas, is supposed to be one of the best. However, it all makes a difference who your team is. Our team is very, very, very new. And inexperienced. Our dietician this week tried to make her AM snack fruit. …
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Changing Level One
In our Family Therapy Session Wednesday, they told me they want to make Level One as boring as possible. They are seeing an increase in ED behaviors since stepping down to PHP. First let me explain their level system. ERC has 3 levels. Each level you get an increase in privileges. Some people make it…
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Braces
My ED daughter had braces. Until yesterday. She has not received much orthodontic care since early Fall 2021. Veritas took her to an orthodontist while she was in their care twice to cut broken wires. I had mentioned to her maybe we should just take the braces off, and we would redo them when she…
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Who to Trust?
My daughter called the other night very upset. She had to tell me about what happened at breakfast that morning. Part of her breakfast was French toast sticks and syrup. When she was finished, she still had syrup on her plate. She was told to scrape her plate. She did not want to be marked…
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Hives
When we began our time in the ED world one of the most common questions was if my daughter was anxious before this all started. I always answered that no. She was your normal, happy, 11-year-old. If anyone of my kids was anxious it was my oldest daughter. Now the ED has caused her to…
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