My son saw a neurologist today

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Yesterday my son saw the pediatrician and I told him about the noises my son makes and worried it could be Tourette’s. He said it’s a tough one to diagnose and our best bet was a hospital 2 hours away. I took my daughter many times there when she was little so I know it’s a top rated hospital and worth the drive for the best doctors. The hospital had a cancellation and said if I could come at 1 today they could see him if not he would have to wait 9-12 months. I snagged that appointment up! My boyfriend fell bad in his driveway on snow and hurt his hip. With his bone disease I was very worried. Plus we were supposed to get 8 inches of snow overnight so I was terrified to drive in that! So I barely slept all night. The first 20 miles were pretty bad but after that the roads were fine. We stopped once fast at a rest area to use the bathroom and to get food at McDonalds. We arrived at the hospital with a half hour to spare (after leaving the house 3 hours before) which was good as it’s so enormous and confusing to navigate through. The neurologist was new and she was amazing! We could not have picked a funnier kind woman if we had tried. She really put my son at ease and had him giggling a lot. She thinks I am right about his movement being stereotypy but she does not think the noises he makes is Tourette’s. She said usually Aspergers and Tourette’s don’t show up together. She said the medicines have a lot of bad side effects and if it’s not Tourette’s it will not help. She feels it’s just part of the Aspergers. She said to wait six months and see how things are and then if I still am concerned to see the head neurologist who deals with motor movements who unfortunately was not there today or she would have had him speak to me as well to get a second opinion. I believe my daughter saw him when she was little. The photo is of my ice cream. They were passing out free ice cream sundaes. This hospital is just amazing if I lived closer it’s somewhere I’d love to work.