As many of you know Julia spent the past few weeks at in inpatient campus for children. The goal was to observe her and try to help her manage some of her more pressing issues.
Julia was officially discharged today. The past few weeks have been long, between meetings and decisions and keeping everything as normal as possible. So what was the point of her stay? Julia struggles greatly everyday with a few disorders. Ben and I are parents, we love, we care, we protect, but also we know when we need help too. Part of being a parent is knowing your limits and using your resources. Through the guidance of our team and a lot of prayer we followed the suggestion to have Julia stay at a place for children who need a little extra.
What was the result? Julia got some much needed help with her sleep so fingers crossed that continues at home. There were no real surprises, more of validating what we knew. In some ways it is nice to know we are doing the right thing, in other ways it would have been nice if we were wrong... we will just say we have our work cut out for us. Beyond the information we also have a few new resources in place to help us along our journey, which should bring some reprieve to everyone in the family in the long term and short term.
So on we push, family of 5 doing what we need to to best provide for each other. It isn't an easy road, but we will do it together and come out on the other end.
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