any advice?

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I need some help here, in a serious way. I have just spent a couple of

hours with savannah in a screaming fit, sobbing about this whole

situation. I feel so helpless, I dont know what to do for her. From

the get-go, she has always been a more......um......challenging child.

Determined, sensitive to things that other people arent(loud noises,

bright lights,etc), and when she gets upset, she has always had

trouble calming down. OFten, when she was small, I would just have to

hold her and rock her for hours and keep telling her to breathe, it

would be ok, before she could stop crying. So, since the first IVIG,

which, in my opinion, wasnt all that bad, she has been constantly

asking when the next one is. Every day. WE can be in the middle of

dinner and she wants to knwo the next date. And this week has been MAP

testing at school, which is tough on her, since she has some reading

comprehension problems and always blanks out on tests. So today, she

tried her very hardest, and only scored 2 points higher than last

time, and apparantly the teacher was passing out treats to kids with a

certain score, and she didnt make it, and that really upset her. So I

was putting her to bed, and she just fell all apart, and had been fine

up till that point, but it all just came tumbling out at once--that

school is too hard and she wants to drop out(second grade), she cant

stand the tests anymore, its too hard, she hates having asthma, she

hates CVID, she hates the drs, she hates IVIG, she cant stop thinking

about it, she feels like no one loves her, b/c we are doing this AT

her, I cant seem to make her understand that we are doing this FOR

her, she hates being sick, --at this point she was almost hysterical

and then she had an asthma attack, which just made things worse---I

tried to calm her by telling her there is only a few weeks of school

left, then summer break--she already figured out there will be 3

IVIG's over the summer, so she told me she cant look forward to

that---I dont know if this seeming obsession with the IVIG is normal

to start with, or ......I hate to say this, but my husbands family has

a lot of mental problems, does this sound ok or not? Should she see a

therapist or something, school social worker? Nothing I can say or do

seems to help this anxiety at all, I dont know what to say or do to

help my child, and its killing me, I ended up sobbing right along with

her, I just dont know what to do with her. How can I help her

throughthis?

Valarie