Give thanks for modern medicine.
Lucas has taken various medications throughout his life.
Whether it was to help with the physical problems he had at birth, to help his sleep issues, to assist in his toilet training or to gain some control over his hyperactivity, I’m very grateful that we had the option of connsidering different meds, and that Lucas had doctors who were alway willing to listen to us, and to try and do what was best for Lucas.
I still remember taking a Risperdal (Risperidone) study to his neurologist, and asking her to please read it because I wanted her to put Lucas on it (this was wayyyy back when no one was using it for autism). She read the study (an early one by Dr. Chris McDougle et al, then at Yale), and agreed to write the prescription.
Within a few months, she was pleased to report that many of her autistic patients were doing quite well on Risperidone! Thank God she was open-minded enough to read something brought to her by a parent, and to act on it.
Lucas isn’t the only one who’s benefitted from modern medicine. I can now keep up with him thanks to a new hip!