It is day 11 of antibiotics and I have just had a friendly and peaceful day with my son. He is still oppositional in his speech - but there was plenty of speech. We have discussed computer games for about 3 hours today. I cannot say that this was my favourite topic of conversation and I struggled to keep up - but it was great to see my son come alive with the enthusiasm of sharing his world with me.
My son still has the fears that developed the other day - he doesn't like to go into the shower at night on his own. He is OK during the day, but I have to stand there at night - as I had to do night after night, day after day for a year or so in the beginning. I do not have to turn the shower on and off for him though - that was tedious but necessary. There is discussion about codependency with the OCD activities of Pandas - as it is an illness then it is suggested that these things need to be done, as opposed to classic OCD, whatever that may be, where you apparently should not help out.
So we are winning.
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