Tics

Brandon had had a difficult year in school.

To this day he talks about how much he disliked his 3rd grade teacher.

And honestly, I was very disappointed in her.

I feel like I "fought" with her the entire year.

Brandon was having "troubles" but I didn't agree with her that it was all behavioral. I knew there was more going on inside my son.

Then I figured it out.

Brandon had "movements" that would just happen, then he started making sounds with his voice. I called his doctor.

I told Brandon's doctor that I needed to get the name of a good neurologist because I believed our son had Tourette Syndrome.

Of course, he asked me why I thought that.

I told him my reasons and he agreed and had me make an appointment with him first.

Brandon's tics got worse very quickly.

Brandon developed full body tics and the cursing tic, Coprolalia.

It was a difficult time. Here I was pregnant with our 5th child and our oldest was being diagnosed with Tourettes.

I read everything I could get my hands on.

I was going to do whatever I needed to do to help our son get through this.
I knew God wouldn't give us more than we could handle.