Nate

Nate
Graduation Day June 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Waiting for phone calls every day

Nathanael's "passing out" episodes started happening almost one a week. He passed out playing soccer at school, He passed out in his room, in the living room. He was incoherent one day coming home from school on a MBTA bus one stop before our street the bus driver notice him and called 911. The paramedics were able to get his info from him. They realized he lived on the next street so came to the house before taking him to the hospital.
Nathanael had this huge scratch on his face that went from the bridge of his nose and across his face. Found out he had cut his face with scissors claimed he was going through an initiation for a gang. He was coming home with all these wild stories, the gang story, helped someone who was stabbed in the subway, fell off the platform onto the train tracks. All of a sudden we were questioning if he was lost between fact and fiction. His high school has bent over backwards to help us out. They made arrangements so Nathanael could take the regular school bus from Needham  because it just wasn't safe for Nathanael to be using public transportation any more. The last pass out was on the school bus. Nathanael was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess in Needham. This by far has been the biggest nightmare of all because when he woke up he thought he was four years old. He erased his memory of the last eleven years. Slowly things have been coming back to him. After this last episode Nathanael ended up at Children's Hospital Bader 5 it's called. Best Psych ward in the world for kids.Unfortunately insurance companies don't understand the human side of things and has decided that Nathanael has had enough treatment. Now we are sending him to Maclean Hospital which I'm told is awesome also.  This will be the transition time for him  in between being in the hospital for two and a half weeks and coming home. He is not happy about this transition at all. Told me today he wants to give up, I should give up on him. He is going to stop trying to get better and the worst thing of all he said he would rather die than leave Children's. No matter what I said to him he couldn't get past wanting to die today. Don't know now where this next stop on Nathanael's Journey will take us.

1 comment:

  1. what a nightmare. this is beautifully written and i hope that it helps you find a small glimpse of peace.

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