Is it really Friday again?

Man, the weeks fly by.
Well, yesterday was the big appt with Dr Richtmeier. What a great guy. He spent almost 2 hours with us and never acted in a hurry. He didn't have any of the "I am a DOCTOR therefore I am GOD" attitude at all. Jennifer, our case worker from the ISD went with us and was able to provide lots of info on how he was at summer school. She totally loves Ian. She is one of the nicest people I have ever met in my entire life. She is a Christian too so we were both seeing God's work in how we did in traffic, how Ian had an episode so that the Dr saw it instead of just me telling him about it, how God worked out that Jen taught this summer for the first time ever and had Ian in her class so that she can pass on what she's learned about Ian to his Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Darke.
Ian had an episode as soon as they called us back so Dr. R. got to see what we deal with on an almost daily basis. He had to be carried kicking and screaming into the examination room and then sat in the corner screaming for the next 10 minutes or so. When he is done, he is alway contrite. He came and sat on my lap and was very eager to please after that.
Dr Richtmeier did play therapy with him to see how he would react in certain instances. He also did a pretty thorough physical exam. He said that he felt that the ASD is that much worse on him because he has so much anxiety. So we are going to do a trial of meds to see if it helps his anxiety. He also said that our family doctor needs to get on all the upper GI issues that he deals with: gas, bloating; stomach aches. He said that not feeling well will exacerbate the problems too, which of course I knew and that is why he has been seeing a chiropractor for over a year.
He did different things with Ian to try to provoke certain autistic behaviors and Ian got pretty irritated with him a few times. He noticed a lot of things about Ian that no one has ever noticed but me and so I felt somewhat validated in that. He said that several of them are classic ASD behaviors.
Dr R. and his intern were both amazed at what a beautiful child he is and how smart he is.
From their first impression of him when we came in they were not expecting him to be such a nice, well behaved child when he is not having an episode.
We are going back in 5 weeks and I am supposed to call early next week to let Dr R. know how the meds are working.