Hi Laurie, welcome to NT. This is a nice place to come to with caring people. :hug:

Yes I agree!!! I'm going to visit Jacob today at the Hospital and hopefully bring him home today or tomorrow. Home is all he can focus on, and is very emotional every time I talk to him. The Dr. told him yesterday that if he can get thru 24 hours of participating in group, and not going to the quiet room he can go home on Sunday. So far so good. I think it gave him motivation to behave. Now to get him back to school and being productive. It's going to be a long struggle with weight loss, behavior, productivity and medical issues. I just pray every day for a good outcome for him. I always say I just want a normal life for him and I. But often wonder what normal really is? Or would I know it if I had it, and would it be a happier one. It really hurts when I see other families with teenage kids enjoying everyday functions with their kids. I don't think they realize what they have and how good it is. They think they have problems and a lot of these kids don't realize how good they have it either. If they only knew how hard it is to see your own child in such pain and suffering. I know that my son suffers probably even more that I can realize, and more than he can ever tell me. He will never know what a normal life would have been like.