It's been just over two months since Kit has been out of the hospital. It's awesome having him at Adam's place as he is so close and we know that Adam has an eye on him. It's been getting better slowly. This is probably the longest time that Kit has been on his meds regularly and we see a big difference. He is still mostly hanging out alone in his room, watching movies and playing the odd video game, but with this past week of great weather he has been found outside with his apartment mate having a beer. We bought him a bike last week as a belated Christmas present and he has biked up for dinner and to have lunch with us a work a few times. So that's great! I think he is more chatty and happier. Unfortunately - Kit says he feels no better. Still hears voice all the time and says he generally just feels awful. I hope this is just the part of him who doesn't want to admit he feels better cuz he's a stubborn 22 year old. I hope that he really does feel a bit better...
The last two time we have visited Dr. Lewis we have bumped into a another young man with what I think has the same sort of diagnosis... some sort of psychosis anyhow. He is totally different from Kit - outgoing, talking to everyone, big smile and seems so happy. Last week he attempted to 'hypnotize' Kit into being happy. It was funny and made Kit laugh! I'm hoping that they can connect and share with each other and maybe learn from each other. For sure it's great for Kit to make some friends...
So Dave & I are doing pretty well - it's slow and steady right now and we just love him being on the injectable meds as it's only once a month. Tuesday he gets his next shot - a higher dose - hopefully to shut out those voices, but there is always the worry that he will have some side affects that because it is a long acting injection - have to be treated with other meds since you can't take this one out of his system. We will cross our fingers and deal with it as we need to. It's just so awesome that he is taking the shots... Because we don't have to think about him taking his meds everyday we can just forget about the illness between doctors visits and it's much easier to treat him normally. Which makes our relationship so much better.
Anyhow - this wasn't a very exciting blog - but for those of you wondering how things are going - you now know!!
