ALL ABOUT MY SON

All about my son –

My son was born with a Congenital Heart Disease, pretty much they told us, his heart was developed backwards. We were told that without surgery he wouldn’t live past 6 months old. At 2 months old he had open heart surgery. The Chief of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital told us that they were able to totally repair his heart and that he would live a normal life….Thank you Jesus was all we could say. We were truly blessed, not all the babies made it through….

So you know why I say he’s my EVERYTHING….my baby, my baby boy, my moo moo, my heart, my joy, my happiness, my Son……

Over these 11 ½ years watching my son grow up, he has always been a happy, sweet, cheerful, playful and full of energy oh yeah and very, very cute kind of kid. Everyone LOVES him. He likes to swim, sing, dance, he’s a model and actor.

Andre’s been faced with many challenges especially in school. In school his behavior got him into trouble and his grades suffered. Off task behavior, hyperactive, easily distracted, disruptive, full of energy, impulsive are some of things we were told about my son. Actually, teachers said he was bad, teachers talked about him, and teachers gave up on him.

We tried to do what we could to help him, but nothing we were doing seem to work.

I knew my son wanted to do better in school, but he had no control of some his behavior and some of things he was doing. And one day at Church he went up to altar call and told our Pastor to please pray for him because he wanted to do better in school and at home and he didn’t know why he was doing what he was doing. That broke my heart.

 

He was diagnosed in 2010 with ADHD & a learning disability. He started receiving special accommodations.  No wonder he had some issues is what I thought.

My husband and I went back and forth about putting him on medication, with all the different stories you hear we weren’t sure what to do. The accommodation he was receiving at school was just not enough to help him and his behavior. So after much research and discussion as a family we put him on medication. And what a life changing experience it has been.  We thought he would be like a Zombie, etc like some of the stories we heard, but not him…..It has definitely changed his life for the best.

He has been able to focus less distracted, pay attention and complete his work.  He’s getting great grades which have ALWAYS been a problem for him in school.

I’m happy to say that I am soooooooo happy that we made this decision and of course I’m beating myself up that I didn’t do it sooner...but I’m over it and we are moving forward.

I am very happy for my son that he can now for once really learn and be able to pay attention to what he is learning. There are still some things we are working on, but things are NOTHING like they were before.

When you tell people your kid has ADHD, people that know nothing about it will say oh nothing is wrong with him, he eats too much sugar, you don’t discipline him enough and he’s just bad and sooooo on.  I’ve heard this from my own family….But since he’s been diagnosed and I’ve researched about ADHD and have spoken to many people about it, therapy, etc………it’s REAL….

So if you have any thoughts, concerns, questions about whether or not your kid may have it, don’t wait until it’s too late.  Get them checked now……