Re: When They Get Sick....Oh, Brother.

[Guest guest]

Wow Dana, you really hung in there! Now sit back and breathe! Good

teacher, she seems understanding and great she wanted to help him work

through it!

Hope he's beginning to feel better (which I guess he is if he wants a

friend over!).

-- In , " Dana " <dzazinski@...> wrote:

>

> Thank goodness for this place; it's the only one where I can safely

> vent and I know everyone here will get it.

>

> DS (9) had been on a med change from Risperdol to Abilify, and it

> clearly wasn't working that well and he had been in a downward

[Guest guest]

Just from my son's experience, risperdal is very sedating and abilify

was like a course of electricity going thru his body.

I know they're both antipsychotics, but they work very differently.

My friend works for a pediatrician and the inhaler is a problem for

most kids. The doctor she works for gives the kids a mask of some

sort because it's difficult for kids (and some adults) to get the

timing right when doing an inhaler.

My dad had Parkinsons and couldn't use the inhaler so they gave him

nebulizer treatments. There are more than one way to skin a cat.

~

On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dana wrote:

> Thank goodness for this place; it's the only one where I can safely

> vent and I know everyone here will get it.

>

> DS (9) had been on a med change from Risperdol to Abilify, and it

> clearly wasn't working that well and he had been in a downward spiral

> of obsessive thoughts, generally short-tempered. Well, you all know

> the routine. 4 kids in his class were really sick and 2 threw up in

> the class. Just great, right?

>

> Anyway, then he got a nasty cold and an even worse chunky cough, and

> became afraid he was going to vomit if he coughed in school. So there

> was a week of him already being more fragile and then we had the worst

> of all possible scenarios...a SNOW DAY.

>

> So he DID get a day off. A day where he was whiny, bored. etc. and

> completely OCDing about not wanting to go to school and throwing up

> there.

>

> I knew getting him back to school would be a nightmare. But he was a

> good little man and pulled himself together and went on Tuesday. Then

> he threw up in school.

>

> So he got another day off and I took him to the doctor, where he was

> diagnosed with cough-induced asthma. He got an inhaler which he's

> completely obsessing about using.

>

> But the doc said it's completely normal (but gross) to wake up with a

> chunky cough and with all the mucus suddenly flowing into the stomach,

> for a kid to throw it all up again.

>

> I was able to convince the boy he could go to school on Thursday,

> right up until he threw up again while waiting for the bus. So home

> again we go.

>

> Friday he was a complete wreck about going to school but I forced him

> to. You know the cartoons where someone is hanging off a cliff and

> the other character very slowly pulls off one finger at a time?

> That's what it was like.

>

> At 11, I got a call from his sped teacher (he's in a special program

> for kids with emotional disabilities) who said he was completely

> flipping out about throwing up in school, but if it was okay with me,

> she was going to force him to work through it.

>

> I came home at 4 yesterday, asked how school was, and he said, " Fine.

> Can I have a friend sleep over? "

>

> It all turned out well, but it's so funny how I forget from crisis to

> crisis.

>

> Being sick really turns my little man into a mess. MUST remember,

> right?

>

> Dana

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Dana,

Oh, I hate when they get sick!! We were all sick here too, and than every kid

you see has something different! My children's OCD is sooo much worse when they

are sick!

Well at least your ds is better now!

You made it through it!

Hugs

Judy

[Guest guest]

Little medical update...DS felt a little better over the weekend but

was kind of being a tantrum-y pill, went to school Tuesday and I got

ANOTHER call from the school nurse. Raging double ear infection.

So he got Amoxicillin and was really nervous about going to school

Wednesday. ( " What if my ear hurts? What if I can't hear? " ) But

after the crazy morning struggle, he went.

At 1 pm I got ANOTHER call from the school nurse...his EARDRUM burst.

Back to the doctor, etc.

Guess who doesn't want to EVER go back to school?

Dana

[Guest guest]

Little medical update...DS felt a little better over the weekend but

was kind of being a tantrum-y pill, went to school Tuesday and I got

ANOTHER call from the school nurse. Raging double ear infection.

So he got Amoxicillin and was really nervous about going to school

Wednesday. ( " What if my ear hurts? What if I can't hear? " ) But

after the crazy morning struggle, he went.

At 1 pm I got ANOTHER call from the school nurse...his EARDRUM burst.

Back to the doctor, etc.

Guess who doesn't want to EVER go back to school?

Dana

[Guest guest]

Oh Dana, that's horrible what all he's going through but I had to

laugh. I don't blame him!

Hope the black cloud over him/school clears up with the amoxicillin!

>

> Little medical update...DS felt a little better over the weekend but

> was kind of being a tantrum-y pill, went to school Tuesday and I got

> ANOTHER call from the school nurse. Raging double ear infection.

>

> So he got Amoxicillin and was really nervous about going to school

> Wednesday. ( " What if my ear hurts? What if I can't hear? " ) But

>