Thursday, April 27, 2006
Oklahoma
At the end of 2004, I decided that the school had no more idea how to deal with Autistic children than Santa Claus and had heard about a program in Oklahoma.
My best friend who used to live next door to me here had moved down there in August so I found a job, and a house and one wintery day in early January, packed up the kids and husband and left.
Oklahoma is an interesting place.
The wind blows almost constantly and you can wear a t-shirt in January.
That part was nice.
I wasn't too keen on the hospital where I was working.
The doctors had a number of issues and most seemed inept or ignorant.
We had rented a mobile home a few miles out of town and our landlord was not keen on fixing the things that needed to be fixed so, let's just say, I lived in the house from hell.
We were on 10 acres and the boys loved being outside.
The only problem was that the paddock on one side had a fence that was down and we lived on a major highway.
One day when we were out there, John made a run for it and was half way across the paddock before we knew what was happening.
My husband ran after him and caught him just as John made it thru the hole and was standing on the side of the highway looking at a big semi passing him.
My heart just about stopped beating.
Nathan took this distraction to climb onto the roof of the stable and inspect the electrical wires.
How these boys ever lived this long I will never know.
Someone must be watching out for them.
The treatment in Oklahoma didn't pan out as the school was a live-in thing and I didn't want to put my son in there and it would have required more money than I could lay my hands on.
I was working in Kansas at a hospital there as well so, I was doing 5 12hr shifts a week.
I thought the change in climate would improve my husband's disposition but it didn't and so I decided that we should move back to ND.
We still had the house up here that I was paying on and I decided that I would take on the school and see what I could fix there.
June saw us taking the trek back.
My best friend who used to live next door to me here had moved down there in August so I found a job, and a house and one wintery day in early January, packed up the kids and husband and left.
Oklahoma is an interesting place.
The wind blows almost constantly and you can wear a t-shirt in January.
That part was nice.
I wasn't too keen on the hospital where I was working.
The doctors had a number of issues and most seemed inept or ignorant.
We had rented a mobile home a few miles out of town and our landlord was not keen on fixing the things that needed to be fixed so, let's just say, I lived in the house from hell.
We were on 10 acres and the boys loved being outside.
The only problem was that the paddock on one side had a fence that was down and we lived on a major highway.
One day when we were out there, John made a run for it and was half way across the paddock before we knew what was happening.
My husband ran after him and caught him just as John made it thru the hole and was standing on the side of the highway looking at a big semi passing him.
My heart just about stopped beating.
Nathan took this distraction to climb onto the roof of the stable and inspect the electrical wires.
How these boys ever lived this long I will never know.
Someone must be watching out for them.
The treatment in Oklahoma didn't pan out as the school was a live-in thing and I didn't want to put my son in there and it would have required more money than I could lay my hands on.
I was working in Kansas at a hospital there as well so, I was doing 5 12hr shifts a week.
I thought the change in climate would improve my husband's disposition but it didn't and so I decided that we should move back to ND.
We still had the house up here that I was paying on and I decided that I would take on the school and see what I could fix there.
June saw us taking the trek back.
# posted by donna mason @ 5:05 AM 
