Thanks SG Well, my ribs are getting better - in that I no longer have to take Vicodin and I haven't cried from the pain in almost a week - but they definitely still hurt too much to hug or lift or make whoopie I'm three weeks out and usually 6 weeks is a rule of thinmb for healing an uncomplicated fracture, but I think I'll probably feel a lot better in another week.
Hanging in with my D, found out this week that she was hiding her Prozac in her cheek (when she would stick out her tongue to "show" me she'd swallowed it) so now I actually have to sweep her mouth with my finger after she swallows her meds Amazing how this disease can take a totally honest, trustworthy child and turn them into a manipulative sneak - she's going to watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers tonight, I wonder if she'll see herself in it????
Still, despite this setback, I feel like we are making progress. Thank god for DBing, it has taught me to appreciate the baby steps and not sweat the backslides, even to expect them
D is seeming to understand more of the intellectual level stuff (not that that changes the irrational, anxious stuff) and I plan to start some structured behavioral therapy with her and her brother aimed at their OCD stuff, which hopefully will lead into some overlap with her anorexia. (Anybody interested in this should bet the book Brainlock by Scwartz, details his behavioral therapy approach for OCD).
Her weight is stable at a healthy level now. The urge to purge is still present. She still has delusional thoughts about being "fat" but they seem less intrusive than they were.
I'm three weeks out and usually 6 weeks is a rule of thinmb for healing an uncomplicated fracture, but I think I'll probably feel a lot better in another week.
