Joey the pain

The other night I realized that Joey fell asleep before I could give him his night dose of meds. Then around 10pm he got up to use the bathroom and came to give me a hug and kiss. I utilized that time to give him his meds. I found it strange that he nursed that syringe of medicine...

The next morning I gave him his morning dose and he did his usual, he steps into the living room to watch TV and a second later he's handing me the empty syringe...

Hmmm, what's going on???

Upon investigation I find that little pain has been squirting the meds onto my carpet and not actually taking them!!! OMG!!!

Now my rule, which I apparently should have had in place from the beginning, is everyone takes any and all meds right there in front of me so I see them go in and go down.

Problem now, I lowered Joey from the 1mg back down to 0.5mg again and it's HORRIBLE for him. I can so see the difference from when he stopped taking the meds to going back on them. His personality off meds is awesome, the meds just need to focus him so he can pay attention. On the meds his personality is that of a weepy, whiny, 2yr old temper tantrumy kid. No one can life with his medicated personality, no one! Thank goodness we see the NP today for a med check. I'm going to have him taken off this one and we're going to try something new.