Medical Monday on Tuesday
I am wondering if Medical Monday was a great idea. Considering it is Tuesday and I spent Medical Monday and the Sunday & Saturday prior with 102 fever, chills, wheezing, coughing, basically dying all on my own. Seriously, did I bring this on myself? Yeah, probably not, but in explanation there was a great reason why I didn’t update yesterday.
I wanted to spend yesterday talking about how extremely difficult it is to parent a child with special needs like my Hively has, when there is very little support from the teacher in his classroom.
Monday 1/3/2011 was the first day back from the 16 day Holiday Break. My intention over the last 7 days of that time was to begin Hively on the Focalin XR – 10mg/day. He has had some pretty serious attention issues this year so far and there was a process of doctor visits that lead to this prescription. This was a decision I made after 3 solid school years of trying to work this out with the teachers one on one. Then this year trying to get teacher help via a 504 plan thru the school.
This is a very long story, one I really do not feel up to trying right now as I am still sick. So I will save it for a different day and jump to the point. Because he was sick with this flu bug and fighting it off caused him a hive and angio-adema outbreak, I just couldn’t add the meds with all the steroids and antibiotics. So, on Monday we started it and he took it all week. I sent a note to the teacher via Hively to let her know I would be emailing her (her policy). I then emailed her on Monday morning simply stating:
I hope you had a nice holiday break.
Hively has started his new ADD meds today. If you could please help me by noticing any alterations, good or bad – same or different, in his behaviors/moods. I will watch at home as well but you will be with him for the majority of the time the meds are working full force. I’m sure you know how this is a trial and error situation until we find the right dosage and brand that best fits and works well for him and his specific needs.
If you need to contact me I am always available @ —– or via email.
If it works for you, I will contact you again on Friday to see how the week goes.
Thanks for all your help as we begin this process.
I did not hear back from her. I waited until dinner then asked Hively if he had given her the note and he had. I checked again before bed thinking she may not check email until late in the day. There was no reply. I decided to wait until morning and see if I got a reply. NOPE! So I called the school to leave her a message. She answered the phone…during class…huh? But she found it difficult to reply to my email? I just wanted to a simple “I understand, we will speak on Friday.” 2 seconds. It took me less than 2 seconds to type that. Okay maybe 5 seconds considering she also had to click reply and send. Less time than it took her to answer the phone, act like she was annoyed I was calling her and respond to me with some petty excuse for why she hadn’t replied. I just find it ridiculous. It is a very hard process, ADD I mean. It is extremely difficult added to all his other issues. It is sometimes unbearably hard on me considering I am doing all this by myself. It would be nice to have a teacher who was considerate. (I guess since she is a single mom herself I expect even more consideration, the consideration and compassion I know I have towards other single moms.) This particular educator was out of the class 1.5 days this week. She did send me an update on Friday – but I can’t help but take it with a grain of salt considering she wasn’t there for this time. She said that he had a good week. I know at home I noticed him to be calmer and that less class work came home, also what did come home he completed very easily. I just wish I could have confidence in what she has to say when she is with him for hours every day. But how can I when it is obvious, from an established pattern that she does not care about my child or his educational, let alone personal issues.
1/2/2011-1/8/2011
Hively had a pretty good week himself.
Some minor muscle aches (joints, ankles, knees, shoulders mostly).
This weeks meds:
Hydroxyzine 2x/day, Ranitidine 2x/day, Albuteral, Focalin XR, Synthroid.
