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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Somebody has way too much fucking time on their hands.
  2. Tabasco for eggs, hamburger helper/tuna helper, bloody Marys, and any Cajun gumbo/jambalaya, creole. Sriracha for anything Asian.
  3. I don't think we got a differentiating ADHD diagnosis. They also diagnosed him with a fine motor skills development disorder, but we think that has been corrected or gone by the wayside now. To me, my son exhibits hardly any of these on the chart to a great degree. Impulsivity, yes, but almost none of the others on the H side. When he gets nervous he can fidget. When he doesn't win or doesn't do well at something his self esteem is greatly affected. Those are honestly the only ones I think fit.
  4. Saw this thread got bumped, so I'll post an update. Since we took our son out of the private school last spring things have been better overall for us and him. I think he was so stressed out every day in that environment and he relaxed immediately after he was taken out of it. That allowed my wife and me to breathe a little bit too. We had the focalin scrip and we filled it, gave it to him for a couple of weeks, but it did not make his main issues any better at all. We got through the summer just fine. He was at camps and whatnot, so he wasn't in difficult environments for him. We still had to make a school decision. We opted for the public school in our neighborhood. It's a Montessori school and we thought the completely different curriculum that allows more choices and freedom of movement, etc. would be better for him. Plus, we figured the public school had more resources for this kind of thing and the teachers were probably used to and willing to put up with a lot more shit than the private school teachers. The fall semester went really well. A few issues here and there, but overall he was doing great. We were in pretty constant contact with the teacher and her aide (who we knew from a previous school, which was a great bonus). During the spring, though, he started to regress to the same behaviors we saw last spring. My wife and I both got the feeling of "here we go again." Some of our son's behaviors were pretty severe - hitting other kids, knocking over furniture, running out of the classroom. The teachers took it way more in stride than the private school teachers, but still, things reach a point where they have to escalate. We are kind of at that point now. We decided to give the focalin another try. We dosed him last Sunday to see how it affected him. Not good. It was his little brother's birthday party day and my parents were in town, so there was a lot of stimulation. He was talking really fast and had a hard time getting all of his thoughts out. During the party, he isolated himself and just sat in a corner until we finally coaxed him to move to a better place for him to chill out. He kept saying weird shit, like how he had all of these problems and no one could fix them. It was kind of heartbreaking to witness. My wife and I decided that the focalin was a total disaster and that we weren't going to give it to him again. This caused us to think that maybe he was misdiagnosed altogether. His diagnosis was ADHD. I can't say I have the scientific definition memorized, but our son does not have problems keeping his attention on something. Quite the opposite actually. He is not hyperactive. Again, quite the contrary - he loves nothing more than to chill on the couch at home with his iPad. My theory is that he actually has OCD and possibly depression (just like me and probably several others in my family). We had a consult with the pediatrician and his psychologist. They agreed that we should discontinue the focalin. On Monday, he was still kind of experiencing the effects of the focalin and I could tell he was off, but we sent him to school anyway. He lasted fifteen minutes before the teacher texted my wife telling her that he was having a bad day and raging out. We probably could have left him there, but I went and picked him up and stayed with him at home until my wife could relieve me. We were feeling a bit overwhelmed at that point. Luckily, while my wife was at work (she works at a swanky health club) one of her clients noticed something was wrong and my wife told her what was up. The client, who is a wealthy and connected older lady, stopped their session right then and there and put in a call to a friend who is a child psychiatrist. We had an appointment with another one, but the earliest we could get in was late April, which might've been too late for us. This new doc called back almost immediately and Voila! we got an appointment for next week. That's how the RPN (Rich People Network) works! Anyway, we're pretty excited about this new doc. My wife talked to him already and he understood the situation immediately. He also thinks maybe he was misdiagnosed and that focalin wasn't the right drug for him. So, right now we're just waiting for the psychiatrist appointment and we'll see what happens from there.
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpt6B0dIYGo
  6. What a spectacular fall from grace. Remind me to never fuck with opioids. I know this, for myself and everyone else, if you get yourself in trouble, make some bad decisions, whatever - put down the shovel and stop digging your hole deeper. Just admit you fucked up, commit to doing better and making amends. The sooner the better. Shit will suck for a little while, but you can ultimately get your life back and maybe better.
  7. I just started getting sucked into this story in the last 2-3 days. I am glad that I cannot imagine the mind of a sick fuck who would kill his own wife and son to try to take the heat off of himself for financial crimes he committed. I just cannot imagine someone being that fucking evil.
  8. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Cool, cool.
  9. They are nihilists. Nothing to be afraid of.
  10. Yes. The answer was, "We're not fucking doing that."
  11. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

  12. Wife: "Hey! Hurry up and make this decision that I don't want to make based on a bunch of information only I have!!"
  13. She called out some people we have in common from our past by name. I didn't think that was cool.
  14. I have a cousin I am friends with on Facebook. She became a therapist and one of her daughters is a lesbian who she feels the need to constantly defend even though I have not personally seen anyone attacking her. She is also fat and always has been fat. She posts a bunch of annoying shit on Facebook that is all about trauma, wokeness, positive body image, toxic masculinity and shit like that. It comes from a place of "I am omniscient and I know the cause of everyone's thoughts and behaviors." No you don't, bitch. In addition to always being fat, you have always been dumb. Shut the fuck up.
  15. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Had an MRI today on my right shoulder. Been having pain for 8-9 months. Tried to rest it. Got one cortisone injection and it only helped for a couple of days. The MRI fucking SUCKED. I'm a little claustrophobic, I guess, but the enclosed space plus the noise was enough to almost freak me out. I was in that MF for like 45 minutes. Anyway, torn labrum. Surgery with 6 month recovery time or live with the pain. Good times.
  16. And miss Little Jenny's birthday party, a playdate for the oldest, jiu-jitsu for the middle and two baseball games?
  17. This dumbass deserved to die. You don't do a test with a weighted dummy first? When your life is on the line? If he had no kids then he'd be eligible for a Darwin award.
  18. I wish. Her parents are semi-local, but her dad suffers from effects of a couple of strokes and her mom basically has to take care of him a lot. Plus, her parents aren't the "we don't get enough of our grandkids" type of people. I will enjoy the time with my kids and make the most of it.
  19. My wife has planned a (well-deserved) weekend away with a friend of hers. They are going to some fancy Yoga/spa place. It's very expensive and I don't like the friend she is going with, but whatever. The weekend she has picked to go, which I was given no input into or asked about in advance, is also a weekend where two of our three kids are out of school that Friday. She says she has to leave early in the morning on Friday to go to the Yoga/spa hotel. I start thinking about it and it starts to piss me off that she picked a weekend when our kids are out of school so we have to have some kind of childcare that day and that she is really doing a three-day weekend. For various reasons, I'm going to have to take a day off work to be with our kids. So I ask her, "Why do you have to leave on Friday morning instead of that afternoon or night or Saturday morning (like I always fucking do when I go somewhere by myself for the weekend)?" She understood by me asking that I was telling her that her plans were less than ideal and possibly made without any foresight and certainly with no consideration for me. Her answer was just a long ass way of saying, "Because I want to," but with enough shit that might sound like reasons if you were dumb.
  20. Is there not even any speculation? I mean the whole thing is just bizarre. Living with his mom, dressing as a drag queen at Carnival (NTTAWWT), short work history for "investment firms" and *boom* he's wealthy and funding his campaign with hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company that is very short-lived and its publicly available financials do not comport with throwing off that amount of wealth. Oh, and he's a gay Republican, which is sort of like being a black KKK member. None of it makes sense. Maybe some kind of Manchurian Candidate type shit?
  21. I'm late to the party on this topic, as usual, so forgive me if this has already been covered. I've read up some on this guy's background. It looks to me like he was a nobody and then all of a sudden he has money to finance a campaign. So my question is, where did he get the money and how on earth did he get elected?
  22. And that's fair. I vent here, but I will be the first to admit that my wife is a wonderful person with a lot of really great qualities. Most of the time, our marriage is pretty good. But, it's still a marriage and she is still a woman.
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