Thank you both so much, your friendship means a lot to me and so does your take on my mental well being. I take the lorazepam for anxiety up to two times a day and some days I've only needed it once. I feel better then I have in a long time and I want to get off paxil since weight changes are listed as a side effect and I am so sick of being fat. I am ready to commit to bringing my weight under control. It involves a lot of working out and the work outs can provide the seretonin regulation I had been lacking. I think it is why I feel better.

Thanks bizi, it's so hard being a mom, but doing it from a chair is even harder. Not to mention having an autistic child on top of things really complicates matters. We go to his pdoc next week and I am going to ask her about some things regarding the new behavior people who will be working with us, they told us we're going to have to do some things and I am not sure I agree. I want to run it by his doctors. If they think it's not a haelthy thing for him then some of th e behaviorists ideas won't happen and that's fine with me. I don't want people to just RUN his life, it's up to me and his dad you know?

Anyway you're right on the money Mari, we're planning on filling up at the edge of FL before we're in GA. Thanks for those links, I'll check them out now. Thank you for your kind words too, I think we're ready too. I just have to work on sewing Jack's pants, taking them in so they won't fall off the poor guy. He looks so much better after dropping the fifty pounds he's lost. I am so proud of him and glad he wanted to try to keep our family together, it's been much better between us now.

((((hugs)))) to you both!