ADHD/ODD?

Ok so I have not posted a lot about this because truthfully its kinda personal but I figure if I write about everything else on here and this is really for my family more than for anyone else then there should be no reason not to right. Right.

Ok so here goes. I have posted in the past about the issues I have with DJ. The truth of it is that it is an on going battle with him everyday. We fight about everything and that's only the beginning of it. So I talked to his Pediatrician and told her that I wanted to have DJ tested for ADD/ ADHD and see if maybe that was the reason we were having so many problems. So we did and today was the day we were going to get the results of the testing. So I talked to her and she asked a few questions which I answered and then she hit me with the news I wasn't expecting. She said that yes DJ may have ADHD but that that was not the only thing he had. She said that he had something called ADHD/ODD which at first I didn't understand until she told me what it stood for. The ADHD part I understood (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) but the ODD ( Oppositional Defiant Disorder) part I didn't. I have heard of it once before from a friend of mine who said that her son had it when he was younger or maybe still does I'm not sure but anyway that was to only time I had heard of it. Then the doctor said that she was not going to medicate DJ for anything at this point because she didn't feel that it would solve any of the issues we were having and suggested the we go and see a Psychologist and take it from there. She handed me a couple of pages about the ODD and a very long list of great Psychologists that her practice has encountered. Wow let me tell you that was a lot to take in at one time. So I took DJ back to school and then headed home to discuss everything with Dale. We together did some more research on ODD and man it was DJ to the T he had every system of ODD in the book and then we proceeded to contact several Psychologists to try and find one that not only was taking new patients at this time but was also taking our insurance. We finally found one but he is all the way out in Nashville. I guess I can handle that considering the fact that I am to the point that if we don't get this under control soon I was about to send DJ off to Military School. Which I learned today would be a reward for him not a punishment considering the fact that he wants to join the military when he grows up. Then I had the fun job of contacting DJ's birth Father to ask him if by any chance that this ODD runs in his family because from the research I found it said that it is genetic and can be passed from generation to generation. He was very helpful and surprisingly very civil with me about the whole thing considering the fact that we really have not gotten along very well up to this point. Anyway as far as I knew no one in my family has this or maybe they did and it was not for closed in any records. Anyway I am just thankful to finally have a few answers to why my son is they way he is. I will post again later to let you know how it all went.

Well that's all for now. Blog at you later.