To sick to go to school

Sometimes it is really hard to tell when my son is lieing regarding sickness. I second guess myself because he has fooled me in the past. Last week I took him to hte doctor after his daytreatment because he was complaing about a sore throat and it hurt to swallow. I didn't belive him because he didn't have a fever, just a runny nose and some conjestion. When I got to the doctor and he did his check up on him, he really was sick.

This morning after I told him it was time to get up and go to school, he whined he had a migraine. I took a deap breath and got him an IB profin and gave him about a half hour and then returned to waking him up again. This time though the headache wasn't as piercing ( that is what he told me) but now he felt like he was going to throw up. So I gave him some water and a cracker. He said it didn't help. Another deep breath. I tried to be understanding, maybe today he was really sick. I called the doctor to see if maybe the meds the doctor gave him for his sinus infection was interacting with his bipolar meds. They reassured me that this could be a side effect of not taking the meds with food. Okay so tomorrow he will get the crackers first, then the meds.

Last night he didn't show signs of illness, only very talkative and in need of constant attention. I did make him watch this show nanny 911, he would comment that it would never have worked with him when he was younger because he feels he was an angel at 3 to 10. I laughed and told him that he is my little angel, but far from angelic. His response this time didn't follow a hand gester his time. I actually got the word "whatever". Little grasshopper is advancing.

I am hoping that my son is ready to face tomorrow since he is going to school without question. It was somewhat a little bit easyer when he was smaller to force him to school because I could carry him kicking and screaming ( a business by where I live thought I was kidnaping him but that is another story, that I can laugh at now). He is taller than me and heavier. If I had only taken up power lifting. I did make it clear what his consequence would be if he didn't go to school, and put them in writing and hung it on the door. His consequences for tardies to class is now included in his IEP, and I made him at home sign a contract stating he understood what what expected of him. His day program has done the same for him there. I wll flip a coin and hope it lands on him going to bed before two in the morning and going to school in the morning, without crankyness.

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