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Well, we are having some ups and downs. Mike is chafing at the restrictions of his low-protein, low-sugar diet. When he guzzles a 10-oz glass of cran-grape juice, his behavior worsens markedly. Violating the protein restriction also produces bad behavior. In addition, there are apparently some of these supplements that are causing bad behavior. So, he is not an angel. But I have hopes.

He has visited the applied kinesiology chiropractor once. We will go again on Friday. She works methodically, and has a set of things to check first, so we are doing that. I hope that soon we can "muscle test" most of these supplements to see which are helpful and which are not. I did do some testing on my own on Saturday and decided that phosphatidyl serine, which I purchased at the recommendation of Dr. Mullan, causes very hyper behavior. Yasko says to expect some of the supplements to cause reactions, so I am not surprised.

We now have a case manager from the state, having applied for some state money to pay for "respite care," also known as babysitting. (Can't leave Mike by himself, he gets into trouble, or leave him with his brothers, so we pay for care.) I talked to this case manager, Karen, for a long time this morning. She has some suggestions for behavior mod that I would like to try. Need to discuss them with my husband first.