Meds Adjustment

...that might be working?  Jaime has had a real time of it the past few months.  Which mean this whole family has had a hard time of it.  Here we see her taking off down the road, after screaming her head off at everyone, swearing, growling and totally non-compliant over some likely unimportant thing.  She is not going to live here any more, she hates this f'n family, she DOESN'T CARE that it is 25 degrees and she is not wearing shoes. She refuses to get up for school, refuses to go to her therapy appointments, refuses to give up whatever she might be holding in her hand, taken from a sibling or parent or teacher at school.  She will not hand in her papers at school, holding them tight in two hands with her head bowed, she will shake it "no" and remain immovable. 
Until recently...  Two weeks ago I had a talk with her therapist because we were having incidents like the one above several times a day.  I asked him about the possibility of our taking Jaime totally off ALL her behavior meds, stealing ourselves for the fallout, and then starting over from scratch. 
We began weaning her off at the rate of half of one of the doses of one of the meds at a time, for three days and then going down again for another three days and so on.  From day one the difference was OBVIOUS!  And in an unbelievably good way...  The incidents have decreased in number and severity daily!  I am excited for her psych appointment next week to see where we might go from here!
Now there is likely no way, with Jaime's frontal lobe damage, she will ever be able to control herself enough to be without constant supervision.  As I type this she has swiped something out of the refrigerator and is hiding in the bathroom with it.  However, when Pete went and got it from her it only took her about 5 minutes to come out and say she was sorry.  And she did not scream and swear and try to beat in the windows of the van to try and get in, start it up and :O  threaten to drive away! 
Oh Lord... Just when I am feeling desperate, like giving up, when I think we are needing to look at residential treatment (I cannot bear to bring myself to consider that... I just can't do it) you turn things around and remind me it is all still in your hands, not mine.  The seemingly impossible IS possible.  Thank you so much for your hand in Jaime's life.  Thank you for reminding me that Your Grace is sufficient for her and for us.