Thank you, waves, for agreeing with my belief that this is a med side effect problem. Neither my son or d-i-l know much about this condition, and their assumption is that he has permanent brain damage from the CO2 poisoning, and that is affecting his demeanor...however, he was not like this when he first got out of the hospital at the end of March and up through when he was hospitalized on June 10th. Aside from his manic episode , the only things that have changed since March are ALL of his psych meds. He was given strong meds to eliminate the mania, but, now that he is no longer manic, they need to dial it back some, which my kids don't understand. They think he needs the meds the way they are to keep him from having another manic episode. Of course, they have not done the extensive reading, writing and research on the meds involved here.

We didn't get him to the pdoc as I had hoped - communication problem - but I did find out that he can see his own pdoc, and basically then, 'fire' the doc at the program. Makes much more sense to me, as the doc at the program has seen him only once, while his pdoc has been seeing him since 2003. Makes sense, right??

I will keep you all posted on the progress of this issue.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On another topic, I received a letter from Disability that is giving me info about a tempory password, so that I can log on the the SS website and create a permanent one by Nov 13th. Then I read the following:

If you are a new beneficiary, please make sure that you have received your notice of benefit payment or your first payment before you try to register a password. I guess that I am a 'new beneficiary' - YIPEE!!! We can sure use the money, as I have seen our money dwindling down to a smaller and smaller figure for the past six months.

I should be celebrating!! (I figured I would be approved, but I wanted to see it in writing, and it's been awhile since my appointment)