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  • Dumping Soda

    Ben came home from respite dysregulated. He was not done at the park and requested it multiple times in the past few hours. He sat in the car to protest that we are not taking him anywhere. He requested a bath and got one. He has requested the Soda Fairy and gotten that. Sadly he…

    Mark

    July 25, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    Ben, carpet, dysregulated, medication, NO, soda, words have power
  • Electrician

    All the lights are back on. It took four or five hours for the electrician to fix most of it. The main breaker was expired, the thermal photo rated it at 180 degrees Fahrenheit, so it had to be replaced. That is a temporary fix. Replacing it with a new one will take a whole…

    Mark

    July 24, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    basement, Ben, breakers, electrician, landlady, mom, solution
  • Broken Breaker

    Tonight as he often does Ben requested a light bulb. Stephanie changed the one that dysregulated him but it did not turn back on. As I examined the situation I noticed that several other lights were out. I went down and one of the breakers in our electrical box had tripped. I switched it back…

    Mark

    July 23, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    Ben, breaker, broken, dysregulated, electrical box, light bulbs, Stephanie
  • Too Many Video Games?

    I am a first generation commercial gamer. I played the Atari when it came out at seven. By twelve I had branched out to Dungeons & Dragons. A few years later I worked all summer to afford a Commodore 64, a disk drive, a cassette recorder, and enough games to keep me out of any…

    Mark

    July 22, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    computers, Dungeons & Dragons, faithfully married, jobs, productive, Stephanie, video games
  • If We Now Shun The Fight

    I listen to LDS hymns almost every day. One of my favorites is Come, Come, Ye Saints. I was listening to it sitting on my cell phone while sitting in my easy chair. It came to the line, “Why should we think to earn a great reward/ If we now shun the fight?” I was…

    Mark

    July 21, 2025
    witness
    cell phone, easy chair, hyperalert, LDS Hymns, luxury, sedentary, shun the fight
  • The Soda Fairy at 2 am

    We ration soda in the house. We have convinced Ben that if he wants a can he has to wait in his room until I can talk to the soda fairy. At about two in the morning he came into my room and said, “Soda Fairy, please.” I told him he had to wait until…

    Mark

    July 20, 2025
    rant
    bed, morning, pills, please, ration, soda, soda fairy
  • Today was Hard

    My youngest son started screaming this morning. I don’t know why. I gave him his morning pills and that helped for a while. But his dysregulation returned pretty quickly. He was screaming again an hour later and got an emergency pill. He went out to sit in the car, honked the horn for a few…

    Mark

    July 19, 2025
    collaboration, rant
    cats, dysregulated, pharmacy, screaming, sedation, Stephanie, Walgreens
  • Black Cat on a Friday Night

    It’s 10 pm and Ether is still outside. That always concerns Stephanie and me a bit. But tonight in particular Ben is anxious that the cat is out. He doesn’t like the cats outside but has come to accept it during the day. But at night they all need to be inside for him to…

    Mark

    July 18, 2025
    collaboration
    cats, dysregulated, Ether, Friday Night, Kwik Trip, Stephanie, success
  • A Day with Friends

    That is all.

    Mark

    July 17, 2025
    collaboration
  • Just Four More Minutes

    I didn’t want to get out of bed today. I bargained for a few more minutes of sleep. Now mind you it hasn’t been a bad day. Stephanie had a horrible day but I’ll let her tell you about that. Ben came home screaming and got an emergency pill, but at least he didn’t attack…

    Mark

    July 16, 2025
    collaboration, rant, witness
    Arby’s, Doordash, gratitude, pinching, screaming, Stephanie, struggle
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