first cold of the season

or just allergies? Either way I am pretty much over it. I picked up some generic store band sinus type meds which are flavored but I am not quite sure why...they are to be swallowed why bother with flavoring that you can't taste?

how does one accidentally run?

C has been having severe allergy related issues this spring, much like last spring but worse complete with an asthma type attack, low Oxygen level etc etc...He went to the doctor on Tuesday had a breathing treatment was prescribed a few things fine okay he is improving. The nurse practitioner had also sent along a note excusing him from recess & gym for the remainder of this week which I told him included afternoon outdoors play at daycare. He was none too thrilled because what fun is it sitting down with a book when you can be up and playing with your friends, he even asked me to pick him up early because he couldn't play. I just got a phone call from him from school which to start with I shudder to see the school on caller id but luckily it was just C letting me know he "accidentally ran" but felt just fine and could he play at daycare? So beware of accidental running it can happen anywhere...

and yet another day of phone calls from the school clinic

day 3? day 4? I have lost count. I finally have called the office and requested he be allowed to go to the library for recess instead of outside. I hate to do that but I am not about to drop everything and bring him home suffering from just allergies, nope not going to happen and I warned him of that this morning. Yesterday the Doctor gave us a nasal spray to go along with the Allegra they had already prescribed(and declared him asthma free thank you very much) but this is the worst bout he has ever had to deal with. I hate that he feels miserable and hope these meds start kicking in soon. I do feel mildly guilty but come on he can not just lay out of class for the entirety of allergy season which in K-town seems to be the better part of the year!

get sick on your own time kid

C is notorious for getting sick at the very end of the school day..you know that last hour that it is physically impossible for me to make it across town to pick him up before the insanity of buses & cars are there at dismissal. I felt only mild guilt at cutting him off and telling him to get his butt back to class for the last 45 minutes of the day. And it's just allergies(although MIL is convinced it's asthma as she has been for several years now and I will have to eat crow if it is asthma so I am really really hoping it is just the allergies again) but as we saw the nurse practitioner just last week & got allergy medicine that does not seem to be helping so much I got an appointment for this afternoon

another annoying exchange with the doctor's office

after my third phone call of the day about C having pink eye and then having to explain no it is just his allergies I decided perhaps it might be a good thing to visit the doctor and see if we could get some medication that will work a bit harder than the OTC stuff we have been using..
it started out with me saying I wanted the first appointment of the day with anyone available
"who is your doctor"
um Doctor X but I'll take anyone
"He does not work on Wednesdays will R be okay?"
yes did you miss the part where I said anyone available? and we proceed to make the appointment of course nothing available first thing in the morning so I have to settle for afternoon but at least they can fit us in.
"what is your son's id number or ss#?"
I am driving, have no idea what his id number is and cannot access his ss# while driving. Using his name and birth date did not appear to be any sort of problem and took mere seconds and yet..
"when you come in I will circle his id number on your receipt"
that's great but not something I will memorize or be able to access while driving..still driving the car

you know allergies are bad when

C is asking for eye drops
C who when he had pink eye I about had me with a knee on his body to try and hold him down so I could get eye drops into his eyes
C who I considered using duct tape on to keep his eyes open so I cold get those damn drops in his eyes
yes C asked me for eye drops

I thought the boy was cured

from the whole allergies thing! Wasn't the surgery last year suppose to fix everything? No apparently not because the debilitating allergy season in K-town conquers all in it's path. Got a phone call from the school clinic this afternoon at around 2.15 C had a belly ache-it's all about the sinus/allergy crap we go through this every fall so I told him to go back to class for the last 1/2 hour & I would leave work to pick him up from daycare early. There was no way to make it from work & pick him up without getting caught in the bus & car lines at pick up and quite frankly no not for a vague sort of bellyache anyway. I fell for that once just once last year and no more. And he knows that so I was concerned he was already back to slacking off at school but a quick email from his teacher reassured me he had a good day academically. He came home & slept for a bit had the "sick" dinner of toast, applesauce & ginger ale then after a shower declared himself cured.