Child Health care.

Anyone have a couple hundred thousand dollars I could have? Anyone at all??Damn. Maybe then I could get the kids to the doctors they need without digging my credit score farther into the hole.

Elizabeth has had a strange bruise looking thing (hematoma?) on her bottom lip since May when she fell down the stairs. It has always looked strange, but never really seemed to bother her unless someone asked. She always chimed in with "I fell on the stairs". Around Christmas time, it developed what looked like small blisters on either side of it. They also have a tendency to bleed quite profusely. A couple days after Christmas her lip bled for over an hour and a half so we took her to the urgent care center here in town. After waiting for 1.5 more hours in the waiting room the bleeding stopped 10 minutes before we got to see a doctor. His reaction when we tell him about it: "Thats really weird" I wanted to hit him. No kidding it's weird, if it was normal I would take care of it at home, you buffoon. He said he thought it might be infected, so he said the antibiotics she needed for her concurrent ear infection would take care of that too.. There has been no change in the lip. Tonight it bled for 3 hours or better. I don't even know where to take her.

Landon, on the other hand, seems to not be responding to his medication anymore. He takes Guanfacine to aid in impulse control. It used to help a lot. Now I see no change before or after dosing. I finally started giving him melatonin at night so he would sleep through the night, even then i'm not sure how early he gets up, since I could sleep through a hurricane. The last pediatrician that was seeing him has moved back east, and introducing new doctors is always a pain, since, Landon is inevitably on his best behavior when we need him to break down. There is no way to know what will set him off, but we have not had a meltdown-free day for several days now. If you have not seen one of Landon's full on meltdowns count your self lucky. I need something that can calm him down in an instant. A well timed re-direct can work, but the wrong one will just escalate the meltdown exponentially. I have no way of knowing what will be a trigger or a pacifier. He doesn't technically meet Autism diagnoses, but shares many of the same symptoms. I don't know what type of specialist he needs. He has seen Autism specialists, they say he in not autistic, and recommend ADHD specialists. The ADHD specialists say he is autistic. I just need some freaking help.