Tonight you would have thought we were torturing her. She has a spot that was bothering her so much she asked for medication on that one spot only. To get her properly medicated all over took a lot of work as she was verbally combative and physically completely unhelpful.
The things she said to us were mean, hurtful and accusatory. She hated us, we were awful, she wanted to leave and never come back, we didn't love her, etc. Not the type of thing you'd expect to hear from a ten-year-old child. But this ten-year-old has been through so much medical treatment in her life that she will do anything to avoid it. So I understand.
After getting her medicated and then lubricated with calming lotion and oils she talked to us. I'm worried about her sometimes because I think adjusting to her blindness is still a very heavy load on her. She wants to live in a fantasy world where she's a child of the Greek gods, something that makes sense from some of the book series she's read. Or, she wants to be a cat and live in the wild in a cat clan.
We had a nice time with her after she calmed down, but it was certainly an ordeal to get there. Tomorrow we will have to go through it again. Hopefully she will have healed some by then and things won't hurt as much.
The Big Boy Tiny Girl Monopoly: The children created a new version of Monopoly today and I rather like the rules. You don't need a set of one color to build houses or hotels. The railroads aren't properties but instead let you teleport to any of the other three locations. It makes for a faster game that has a nice little twist from the traditional rules.
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