Now that I've calmed down..

I have a beautiful son. He's sweet, and charming, funny and amazingly smart.  But he's also a special needs child.   To look at him, you would never know it.  To talk to him, you really wouldn't know it the either.  But he's bi-polar, ADHD, ODD, a touch OCD and the hardest to accept...conduct disorder with childhood onset.  

Thats a long story for another day, but its something that you have to know for me to tell my story.

Because of my sons issues he's in an RTC or Residential Treatment Center.   You can take a look at a great program run by the people at I Believe in Me Ranch. 

To say that having my son in a place like that is hard, is an understatement.  But I also realize that he is getting the help he needs and I cannot wish that away. Which brings us to the events of my weekend. 

Every two weeks I will be going to visit my son and have a therapy session with him.  This weekend was the first one and I decided it was time to have transport take me the 4 hours from home to the place he's calling home right now.  This is not something I do easily, I'm a control freak and it drives me nuts to let anyone drive me some place, much less a stranger.  But I took the chance, besides it would give me a chance to catch up on my reading.

Well, the weather and my driver did not see fit to let me read, but I got there in one piece.  I saw my sons therapist and filed in the blanks for her...and then I got an hour to spend with my son.  After two hours they were not back to pick me up.

What the heck?  I have to get home, my girls will be home and they need me right?  well, the people at the RTC went out of their way to try and get me a ride home....or a place to stay in town, and that was not to be.  I spent the night at the RTC because no one could come and get me until 11 the next morning.   What a mess!!!!!

But they had TV and Wifi for me to use, they fed me and were most hospitable during my crazy night.  My girls were safe at home with a sitter and of course my mother in law only 2 miles away.

Yet how did this happen???  HOW DID THEY FORGET ME?!?!?