So far so good?

The past couple days after school Jill has noticed a difference in Liam since he has started taking prozac. She said he has not been anywhere near as whiny, no screeching, and what tantrums he has had have been very short and very few. Jill is not sure if it is coincidental or not, but she has said there is an improvement. It’s only been a couple days, so we still are taking a wait and see approach. We have both noticed Liam seems to be much happier when he is playing. So we’ll see how things progress.

Monday night Liam and Seamus had soccer practice. Jill did not bring the twins to the practice since it was so muddy and wet still. When Seamus’ practice started, Liam’s was at the same time. Liam would not go to his practice. Coach Carr was there and tried coercing Liam to practice. Liam just wanted to stay with me. I started Seamus’ team’s practice and hoped Liam would change his mind and go to his. Nope. Liam wanted to practice with Seamus. I decided to let him practice with the team. Liam did very well, in fact, he did excellent. He listened and did what he was told to do. Comparing him to a few of the other 5-6 year olds on the field you would never know Liam was autistic. A couple of the boys and one of the girls had an attention span that was non-existent. Trying to coach them was next to impossible. Liam really did a nice job.

Tuesday when I got home from work and was eating dinner, Liam was done already. He was all set to go out and was asking me to come out. I had to keep telling him after I finished dinner. The one thing I noticed is he did not have a tantrum, whine, or screech. He would just keep asking me to hurry up or say let’s go. It was a relief not having to listen to the whining and screaming. Liam decided while we were cleaning the dishes up that he was going to play in the driveway. We decided to let him go. Sure enough, Liam was in the driveway for about 5 minutes when we noticed he was gone. Here he went down to our neighbor’s house. He went in and made himself right at home. I saw where his bike was and Jill went to get him. Liam just went down there to play. It just shows that he still can not control himself and stay in the yard. Luckily we have such good neighbors that understand Liam. When it came time for baths and bed, Liam was ready. He was sound asleep before 8pm.

We’ll see how the rest of the week goes. The prozac seems to be making a difference. It is still a little hard to accept giving that to him. With his current medications, I just can’t wait until we come to a point where we can stop giving it to him.