This Face

is the face of Tourette's. My gorgeous daughter has now been diagnosed officially with having this syndrome. I spent the first couple of days in a sort of numb shell shocked way even though I knew this would probably be the diagnosis. No one wants to hear anything like that regarding their child. However as a couple of days have passed by and I have done some major researching acceptance has come and also the realization that this is not so bad. I mean its not life or death. Its pretty mild she mostly just has facial "ticks" , eye blinking, grimacing head nodding, shoulder jerking and a little bit of squeaking with her throat. It mostly comes out late afternoon and at night when she is more tired.

I researched the "drugs"prescribed and Waun and I made a very easy decision not to medicate her. She is well liked by her peers, has lots of friends, the teachers in her class say she is not disruptive, her principle is very against medicating as our we. So instead we are going to continue on with a holistic approach to this and see how that works for now. As long as Paige is happy and well adjusted then there is no point in changing who she is with a medicated version of Paige just to control some "ticks".