This is real life

This is real life. We're not in a movie that's scripted. I'm sorry but I am not a hollywood movie star.
Life can get so hard, but I am glad we are in God's hands, and not just left here to fend for ourselves.
About a month and change ago I took Daniel for a follow up visit to his developmental pediatrician. after telling her about our many No Good, Horrible, just plain old bad days we've had at school... It seemed more like a long series of unfortunate events,. She   suggested that we go ahead and put him on medication.  but first we needed to get an EKG to see if his heart was okay to go on the medication.
Okay, if you know me..You can relax.I am not a proponent of putting little kids on medication.  In fact I'm rather very conservative and need  fifty reasons to consider it and I need a pro and con sheet etc.  This is especially true with my kids.
We went and got the EKG done at the children's hospital.  He was so freaked out that he peed himself on the table and all they did was put stickers on him.
We went home and waited.  Later that week we got a phone call saying that there was an abnormality on the test.  we needed another test and a visit with the cardiologist.
At first at hearing this both Andrew and I were totally freaking out, but then I had a sense of total peace.  I could not understand why it was there, but honestly after everything my kids have gone through, anytime peace shows up I'll take it.  I told Andrew and suddenly he felt peace about it too.
We had to wait 2 weeks to go get the other test. We waited until the 14th and went to the cardiology place.
Next time I'll just let Andrew take Daniel because Sarah is very impatient and has no manners when it comes to waiting rooms.  That and their NICU model room gave me flashbacks all the way back to Jonathan...
Waiting is the worst.
Andrew and Daniel come out and we were pronounced healthy. I felt so relieved I cried.  Andrew went phew we dodged that bullet.  The doctor couldn't find anything wrong structurally with  his heart.
Since school was starting, we were in the mad scramble mode to get ready like we always are.

Add in a schedule change for Andrew.  He is now working Sun through Wed. 6 am to 4:30pm.  Yep, he is working Days and he is feeling more rested than he had been in a while.  Having 3 kids and working anything other than days is not a good mix.  one's sleep will always be broken, Being that  because your house has a certain level of noise that cannot be avoided.

So this last week we called the doctor that wanted the first test and said we got cleared, here's the doc we talked to... Can we start the medication.

I'm not about to list all of our reasons, but let's just say we thought about all of it carefully and prayed about it and decided to try this medication, so that Daniel can have at least a better chance at being calmer through the day and have a chance of not ending up in the office with the school calling me every 30 mins so that I can rescue them from him, (yes I know they were treading the thin line  between following and breaking federal laws regarding kids and special education)  sign us up.
We started on Sunday and won't know if it is going to work for a week or two...
 we are just way too thankful that so far we are having great days at school although Daniel has only had on serious incident (which  the teacher under told me verbally but in writing it was far more serious.)... Yay they are creating paper over this stuff.
So Be blessed while you can in every circumstance.