It's been a rough week for us, that is way I haven't had a chance to post for awhile. Hunter woke up Monday morning and told me that his throat hurt and he should stay home. Well me being the mother and him being Hunter I told him that he was probably just tired, he went to bed way to late and it's Monday and no one actually wants to do anything on Monday. So..I sent him to school. About 10:15 I received a phone call from the school nurse..I thought oh great..now i'm the mother of the year that sent her sick kids to school. But you never can tell with Hunter, and in the past I have kept him home just to find out he didn't want to go. His throat still hurt and his tonsils were all spotty with white stuff is what she told me, he didn't have a fever, but felt achy. I left work and picked him up right away. I called Lexi's school on the way to pick up Hunter. She had called me in the morning to say she had a tummy ache, I sent her to school too. I thought if I'm picking up one child and going to Urgent Care (his ped didn't have any open appts) then I might as well take 2 kids if I have to. When I talked to her she said she was feeling fine and would be able to make it through the day. So off I went with one child to the Urgent Care. They did a strep culture and the rapid came back negative. They usually do...They said they would culture it and let us know if anything developed. I spent Monday at home with Hunter and it was a great day. We were bums the whole day! Laid on the couch and watched TV together. I could really get used to this being at home during the day thing..Who knows maybe someday i'll get to. I sent Hunter to school Tuesday and Wednesday. On Wednesday I had a missed call on my cell phone, they didn't leave a message so I called the number back. It was the Urgent Care clinic I took him to. I put 2 and 2 together and figured they were calling about the culture. I found it odd there was no message...what if I wouldn't have called back?? I spoke to the Dr and he said that it did grow strep and he would call in a RX. So now i'm thinking great he can't go to school tomorrow because he hasn't been on meds for 24 hours...Well that's a silly rule..If the kids feel fine then they should be able to go...He had the strep since Monday, but it just wasn't enough to show on the culture..I figure he's already exposed everyone anyways..So my plans were to send him today. Well...that didn't happen, he woke up feeling like poo or so he says. It was a crying fit to try to get him dressed this morning, which then turned into a screaming match. He wouldn't put his clothes on, he just kept yelling that his throat hurt and he was sick...my reasoning to him was your throat hurts from all the yelling, if anyone yelled that loud they would have a sore throat. Once I sat back and thought about it I could see that fact that he probably didn't feel good. If the culture just came back yesterday as positive then the strep has also been growing on his tonsils too. So he stayed home, good thing we came to that decision because by this time the bus had already driven by and he hadn't even put on clean underwear.
Why I feel set back....I don't know if it from Hunter not feeling well but holy moly has he been off this week. I call it the "old" Hunter...the one that used to exist before we started all of this. The one that we dealt with everyday. When your with him everyday you don't always see how much progress he has made. I have thought everyday this week "wow, I can't believe this is how everyday used to be" I sure hope it's not a set back and we have to "start over". I can't take anymore yelling, name calling, degrading and overall meaness anymore. It's so hard to stay positive sometimes. I've even noticed a change in his school work he's brought home this week. His handwriting is worse and the grades are average, I'm chalking it up to being sick and with his sensory disorder it's throwing him all out of whack. Here's to hoping that this weekend brings fun and positive behavior and that next week will be back to as "normal" as possible...whatever normal is
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