Difficult Times-Difficult Child

Jacob is very used to his routine. Three times a week, he expects his therapists. He plays downstairs with his siblings every day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are pretty much at the same times daily and bath time and bed time follow. This year a were greeted by a very nasty surprise. Hurricane Sandy swept up the East Coast and blasted the Northeast. A 14 foot storm surge deluged my neighborhood destroying the ground floor of my home and Jacob's little world. Today is Tuesday, November 13, 2012. It has been 2 weeks since Sandy hit. Jacob has not seen his doctors nor had his therapies since then. We have been displaced from our flooded home and have been nomads for a fortnight. We first rode out the storm in my mother's house away from any rising flood waters. After returning to the disaster area that is my home we relocated to emergency shelter in a rundown flop house. We were a family of five in a tiny room with no electricity or heat. We were saved after a week of this by a close friend. After rooming with her for three days, we got a room at a national extended stay hotel. It's even got that 'lectricity! However, we are still 5 people in a hotel room. Really cozy. This has been a difficult time for all of us, especially Jacob. He has been torn from familiar routine and cast into chaos with the rest of us. Out of the 5 of us, he is the most stressed. He will sit and cry for hours on end because this is not his home. This is going to be a trying time for this family. I just hope we will still be in one piece after this is all over.