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A few days later Mason’s phone went off while he, Max and I were in the house just watching the Spongebob movie. Max, who was slowly drifting off to sleep, suddenly jumped out of his sleep. Mason answered in a whisper "Hello....yeah um what about? What...wait, when are you coming?...... what the fuck are you serious? Why can't you take care of her?.....you are so fucked up.... Are you sure I am? ..... and how old?....What!!!!" I slapped his chest and shushed him. He jerked his head to me and mouthed the word "sorry" to me before he answered whoever was on the phone.
"Why the fuck didn't you tell me?" he said talking to the person on the phone as he ran fingers through his hair in a frustrated manner.
"Still that's a child you don't turn your back on it" When he got off the phone I asked "Who was that?"
"Uh just Jack he wanted some advice"
"Oh Okay" I didn't know what it was really about but he seemed really bothered about it for a while. "Are you sure, we can talk about it?"
"No I'm fine but um listen I need to talk to you later about something"
"About what?"
"um..." I can tell he was thinking long and hard about it before he answered "You know what it's nothing"
"Oh okay.... Well I think we should get up and get Max ready to go to daycare so I can get to work on time"
"Okay" I paused to watch the movie and tapped Max and said "Come on buddy Mami and daddy have to go to work" he grunted and then his eyes flickered open. I kissed his temple before I got up out of bed to pick up max. He got up on the bed standing on his two feet as he jumped on me. I help him and said "Be careful of Mami’s tummy"
"Sowy" (sorry) Max said. I put him on the floor and he ran to his room. Mason got up out of bed too and straightened his shirt. I walked over to him and cupped his cheek saying "I hope you are okay"
"Yeah I'm fine" he said with a forced smile upon his face before I gave him a peck on his lips. I smiled as I responded "I hope so" I went to Max's room to get him dressed. When we managed to get out of the house on time today. I was at work typing up some documents for yearly sales when my secretary told me.
"You have a Melissa Montgomery on line three"
"Thank you" I picked up the phone and answered.
"Hello"
"Hello, Mrs. Cortez?”
"What did Max do today?"
"I'm glad you know him so well, anyways during play time Max had started a fight over a toy car and he started screaming and throwing a tantrum so I had to put him in the corner."
"Thank you Ms. M, I'm going to go get him soon"
"Okay"
"Have a nice one"
"Thank you"
So I had to take my lunch break early to go get him. When we got home I put him in the time out and he threw a tantrum. I didn't care because I wasn't letting him out until he stopped. I was making myself some lunch when he started to slap himself and threw his head back on the wall. I went up to him and held him telling him to stop. I had to restrain his hands from him so he wouldn't hurt himself again. I didn't let go until he stopped struggling to break free. As he continued to cry I called his dad and told him what happened he said "Put me on speaker"
"Okay. Listen Max, Daddy wants to talk to you" I said to Max. "Buddy I'm right here what's going on?"
"Dey-took-my-toy-an' Mami put me- on- timeout" Max whined as he cried between words."Why are you giving Mami a hard time? You should be helping her not making her get off work so she can discipline you"
"I Sowy" (I sorry)
"I'll tell you what, if Mami tells me you were being a good boy for her I promise you I will bring you home candy."
"Otay"
"Okay I love you Nene"
"I wove you too"
I took Mason off of speaker and put the phone to my ear. I then said "Stay on the phone"
"Okay" so he did until I got Max to fall asleep in my arms, twenty minutes later. I kissed his head and carried him to the couch where I laid him on one of the pillows while I finished making my sandwiches.
"Okay so I feel like Max is getting worse" I said as I put together my sandwiches.
"Well we should make an appointment, right?"
"No not yet...I can't do it Mason...I'm too scared I'm not ready to accept the results"
"Alright we'll do it when you feel ready"
When Mason came home we went out and played in the park. When we were having fun playing ball but then his ice cream fell so he started crying. After I talked to him he stopped crying and fell asleep on the ride to the restaurant. Later that night Mason and I talked about Max's behavior lately.
"Baby do you really think he is acting out because of us?" he asked, concerned.
"What did we do?" I curiously asked.
"Hello all the arguments that started two years ago, don't you think that he has noticed it?"
"Oh right...maybe. Or...it might be what Dr. Carson was warning us about."
"About what?"
"The changes in his behavior, his sleeping patterns. Baby it might be early signs of the bipolar disorder"
"What do you want to do? Talk to doctor Carson?"
"But he is so young you know they might misdiagnose him, like they did to me when I was seven"
"Okay then let's just observe for the next few weeks and we will decide if that will be a better alternative"
"Okay"
I woke up around three because I had the urge to pee when I walked past Max's room I saw his lamp on so I opened the door to see that he was playing with his truck. He got scared when I opened the door. He jerked his head as I asked him "Why are you up at this time?"
"I can’t sleep"
"It's almost four in the morning how long have you been up?"
"Since I woke up before dinner"
"We'll put your truck away and head to bed before Daddy catches you"
"Otay I wove you"
"I love you to Nene" I closed the door after he hopped back into bed. Then I went to the bathroom. When I was finished, I peeked into his room to check on him again and he was snuggled up into the blankets. I closed the door and headed back into my room where I snuggled under the blankets, close to Mason.
"Are you okay?" He groans.
"Yeah I just had to pee"
"Okay"
"But what's so strange is that Max was up again"
"What was he doing?" he asked with his eyes still closed.
"Playing with his truck"
"You know that offer is still on the table"
"I know...I'll see today. It's been two months since we got back from the trip and suddenly things are just getting worse and I'm scared that if we wait any longer his episodes are going to get worse"
"It’ll be okay, just stop worrying and get your rest."
"Okay" I placed my head on it snuggling into his warm torso.
Later that day in the afternoon, when I went to go pick up Max from kindergarten he was crying. On the ride home I asked "Are you okay, what happened sweetie?"
"The kids were mean to me. No one wanna be my fwend" he whined.
"Maybe if you learn to play fair they would want to play with you"
"Dey don't like me" he said rubbing his tears with the surface of his hand.
"Well I'll tell you what. You do have friends. Mami and Daddy are your best friends"
"I know but I want oder fwends" (other friends)
"And you will baby. I promise you that. Now stop being so bad and so sad and so Mami, her strong little man, '' he wiped his tears and smiled at me. "That's my boy." I said smiling back at him as I took him out of his car seat. As we got into the house he ran to the L shaped grey couch and I clicked on Nickelodeon for him before I walked to the dining room to sit down and take off my heels. My feet were so aching because I had to stand up all day. But ya know as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur your job is never done. So, I took a deep breath and held onto the table ledge for support and I pulled myself up. I swear this belly is getting bigger by the second I already look like I'm three months in hahah. I finally managed to get to the kitchen where I took out the ingredients, mashed potato boxes, and chicken. The last thing I needed was the two pots but I couldn't reach to get them because they were under the sink, so I called Max over and said "Can you come help Mommy get two pots?" he crawled under me and got the two I asked for and got up. I kissed his cheek and said "Thank you sweetheart"
"What's for dinner?"
"Mashed potatoes gravy and baked chicken"
"Yummy!" he said before running back to watch whatever the reruns have on at eight at night. I
was stirring the gravy when I heard a loud thump and max sudden cry for me. I put the spoon down and ran over to him and saw him on the floor. I said "What happened?" as I held him up.
"I wanted to fly like superman"
"You shouldn't be jumping off the sofa. It's made to sit not fly. Where does it hurt?"
"Right here" he said pointing at his elbow that now had a red mark only later to become a bruise. Then he pointed to his hand. I kissed where it hurted. And asked "All better?"
"Yeah"
"No more flying for you Sir" I said, wiping his tears. Suddenly I smelled something burning. The gravy. I put max down and ran back to the kitchen and stirred the gravy that was about to cake onto the pot then put it on simmer. Then I picked up the lid to the mashed potato pot to check on it. It was just about done.
Later that night when Mason came home from work Max ran up to him and kissed his cheek, then he came to the dining room where I was eating and said "Hey Nena" before giving me a kiss.
"Hey my love. Your dinner's in the microwave wrapped it's still warm. How was your day?" "Good and you?"
"Stressing then Mr. I-believe-I-can-fly, almost made the gravy burn."
"Oh really.?” he turned to Max and said “Max why were you jumping off the sofa what did we tell you about that?" he turned around and scolded his son.
"I'm sowwy" Max said before continuing to eat.
"And Daddy bought you candy for what, so you can give Mami a hard time again tomorrow?"
"really?"
"You get it after dinner"
"No baby he has to take a shower and head to bed, daycare tomorrow I don't want him to be bouncing off the walls at 10 at night" I intervened in the conversation.
"Alright then tomorrow it will be with your lunch" he changed his mind immediately. After Max was done I said "Good boy now go clean your bowl and watch TV or go play with your toys until I'm done"
"No baby I'll take him to a bath" he said volunteering. "Thank you baby" I said smiling at him. Max chose to play with his toy so he went upstairs. He walked over to the couch and lowered the volume of the TV before returning to the table to eat. He gave me another kiss and said "Thank you for the food baby"
"No prob."
After moments of silence I spoke low when I said "Today is the last straw we're going to get him checked out tomorrow"
"Alright and why?"
"You don't just decide to be a daredevil for no reason when superman wasn't even on at the time"
"Well what was on?"
"The reruns of iCarly"
"Yeah Imma go with what you want" he chuckled before biting into his chicken. The next day Mason and I had our days off so we went with Max to see a child psychiatrist. My heart kept beating fast. I really didn't want to go. I don't want to be right, I honestly don't. I haven't even saw my shrink in a while because he said I was doing better than expected. I remember the first time I had to get one it was when they were evaluating me when I got to this treatment center. While we were walking into the building, Max asked me "What is the place?" (place). I looked down at him and said "We are going to talk to a special doctor"
"Otay" When the doctor called my name I grabbed Max's hand and we walked into the office. The woman greeted all three of us shaking our hands and saying "Hello y'all my name is Dr. Van Telle" Mason and I said "Nice to meet you doctor" one after the other. Then she put her hands on her knees and tried to speak to Max saying "Hey little guy how are you?" He just grasped onto my left thigh and didn't say a word. I then said "Yeah he can be a bit shy to strangers"
"Well I'm a nice person." she said smiling max. But Max just squeezed my thigh and moved himself a little further away from the doctor.
"Come on Nene say 'Hi' she won't bite" I chuckled saying to Max. He just waved his little hand.
"Awe how cute. Well why don't you go play with all those toys over there while I talk to Mami and Daddy" he nodded his head and looked up to me to see if it was okay and I allowed him to go play. He ran over to the toys while we sat down across from Dr. Van Telle. She started out by saying "Okay I have a few-well quite a few questions about Max. But first can I get the first and last names and date of birth of you both" Mason answered for him and I gave her our full names and our birthdays.
"Okay so when did one of you's or a family member start seeing changes in his behavior?" she asked as she wrote down a few things in her notebook. "Well it started around when Jay and I were at work and his god mom was watching him and she had called me and said that he was yelling and everything so I didn't get to leave because that happened but it wasn't the first time it happened though." I explained to her.
She wrote down my response. She asked "Did y'all notice any episodes he would have if so, when would they start and how long will they last and how severe are they?"
"When she would be at work I would have to take care of him and one night he would be hyper and the others he would not want to talk." He said, answering.
"Just yesterday he had an episode that lasted about thirty to forty minutes. He was throwing a tantrum and he started to slap himself all because I put him in the time out chair. So, I had to restrain him and call his dad who was at work that day so he could stop him from crying , but then twenty minutes later he fell asleep. After that he had woken up and while I was cooking dinner he jumped off the couch and banged his head on the coffee table. He said he jumped because he believed he can fly like Superman" I explained my point of view of what I encountered with Max. She wrote down our responses and then asked "Any more times?"
"This was on his birthday. I forgot where I was going but I was going to leave and he started to throw a tantrum just after everyone left. So I had to sing to him to stop him from crying and convince him that I wasn't going to leave." Mason added about his encounter." I see judging by his episodes and how often they are I would say he has symptoms of ADHD or those that mimic the early stages of Bipolar Disorder" When she said that my heart dropped to my stomach.
"Do your family have mental illnesses?"
"Well not from his side but yes my Mom suffers from BD stage two while I was growing up and I too suffer from it but I was diagnosed to have stage one"
"Okay and your Dad?"
"He had suffered from an eating disorder. In which from time to time I suffer from especially being pregnant"
"How many months?"
"Two and a half"
"Congrats"
"Thanks"
"Well good to lighten the mood but back to business. Are you familiar with pediatric bipolar disorder?" We both shook our heads and she said "Well it may be just that however there is still debate within the professional community about so there is no treatment of this disorder however from what y'all have told me I think he is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."
"Are you sure?" I asked, not believing what I heard.
"Yes. However, I have to give him a few tests before I can give you my final answer" We understood and signed some paper to allow her to run the tests on him. We took a loan out from my investments in my cosmetic company to pay for our son's treatment before it got worse. She said that it will take a few weeks for the tests to come in. When we got home I just couldn't stop thinking about what she said. I'm so scared for him. God knows what will happen tomorrow. This boy is so unpredictable. I know this is only the beginning of time repeating itself. I got pulled out of my thoughts when Mason's hands started to massage my shoulders. He asked me "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine baby I was just thinking that's all"
"I can tell you are sad about something. Tell me what it is baby."
"What Dr. Van Telle said.... I'm just scared"
"It will be okay, think positive."
"I'll try but I can't make any promises" Suddenly there was a ring at the door. Who will be knocking almost eleven at night. I opened it and saw a small, tan skinned girl, with waist length hair with a suitcase. She said "Hi I'm Anastasia. My Mami said my Daddy lives here."
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