[tri-med] Re: Alex update

First off, THANK YOU  to EVERYONE who responded to my Alex update......I've
sat here with happy tears in my eyes reading the supportive, funny,
anecdotal messages and thinking--yet again--what a great group of people we
have here!

Responding to a few messages below:


Pamela wrote:
> Savannah is almost 16 and I'm near that stage you are
> experiencing with Alex. At least you won't have to
> contend with whether the music station is set right,
> her makeup needs adjusting, the seat a bit higher to
> make herself appear older, it frightens the heck out
> of me. Right now when I ride with her, I want that
> control to reach over and help her, but restrain
> calmly, so not to freak her out that her driving is
> freaking me out. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH "
> But Kuddos to Alex!! That is such a milestone of an
> accomplishment!! (as scary as it is) This is just the
> first of many accomplishments Alex will make in his
> lifetime to independence, I know you are wanting to
> smack me for saying that LOL :P

Remember the disco song "Le Freak"?????    lol    While we're 'freaking out'
at least we'd be 'chic' according to the song.

And nah, I'm not going to smack you!!!!!!!

Linda A wrote:
>Being a parent is the hardest job a person has.

A big 'ole YEP on that one. It's crazy, when you're preg you KNOW it's going
to be challenging and at times hard but reality is SO much more intense than
what you ever imagine. Good thing we love the silly creatures so much or
we'd never put up with it!!!!!!!

Wendy wrote:
>It takes a while for the anxiety to simmer down to a dull roar.

And you need a blindfold and Valium to ride with your 25 yr old Ryan?????
Aaaaccckkkkkk!!!!  lol  Maybe there's no hope for me..............

It it just your offspring that does this to you or others as well? For a
while, the passenger seat position with Alex driving made me so twitchy that
I couldn't hardly stand to have Jim drive (it was ticking him off my sighs,
abrupt inhalations and hanging on the door handle while pressing my foot on
the floorboard).

Jocelyn wrote:
>They must have thought him reasonably competent or they wouldn't have
issued it.

Yep. Last week Jim took Alex to the high school to practice parallel
parking. An adult male from another country was there waiting for the road
test administrator to arrive....for HIM to get his license. After Alex's
road test a week later this same man was back to RETAKE his test.......he'd
failed the first one.

Jim said Alex had done well on the road test.

>when we were heading for the fence, after me saying, with increasing
crescendo, slow, slow SLOW >DOWN SLOW DOWN

ROFLMBO Jocelyn! That's me, I START off with a reasonably modulated
request/suggestion/direction and when he doesn't do as I say the increasing
crescendo of repeated words ensues.  :0)

>After a while, you just can't continue to function effectively if you
retain that level of fear, and you take a >few steps back and DETACH.

Quite right. It's something our triers certainly teach us along the way
isn't it? Maybe that's why we seem blasé to newbies who are just entering
the fold of life in the trisomy fun park.

Michelle mom to Alex (17, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (13)
MichiganUSA


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