No news is good news, right? This summer has been pretty uneventful for her. The Tacrolimus appears to be doing it's job. The hardest part is making sure she takes her medicine every day. Her last relapse was because she became lax at taking her meds.
As a child she was really diligent about taking her meds, so I - wrongly - assumed she would be even better as a teen. But alas, she seems to have lost some of the interest in taking care of her own medical needs. The doctor said kids can be pretty good at being on top of things, but teens usually are terrible at being responsible for their own care, and that responsibility does not seem to return until around the age of 24.
We are trying to help her by putting signs up in the kitchen and bathrooms to remind her, and using a pill minder so that when we ask if she took her medicine she can't get away with just saying, "I think so."
She's a good kid, I guess it's just hard to have to be responsible all the time for something you wish you didn't have to worry about.
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