itchyfeet
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Because I feel like bursting into tears but my 9yr old is home and I don't want to upset her. I intended on just ranting but heck, this is the internet! Throw all of your ideas, opinions, Dr. google diagnoses at me! May as well brainstorm while we're at it.
I am a Mum and a wife. I work from home very part time, and have been retraining for my post kid rearing career by working towards my degree from home. My husband is a research engineer and paid well enough. We live in a brilliant small town. The children are at a great school. We are in very blessed circumstances to be facing such a crappy situation.
Miss 9 has always been an intense kid. She had colic for the first 6 months, could write her name ten days before her second birthday, spent the first 6 weeks of her formal schooling refusing to move from under the table, is academically well above her peers, but also very strong socially and athletically. Sounds like a brag session, but to understand the other side of it you need to hear this, too.
Last year, she had a run of the mill, every kids gets it kind of virus. It morphed into a secondary infection, before she was lumped with post-viral fatigue. As a kid, intense as she was, she never got the tonsilitis, ear ache, small child run of normal ailments. This was the first big crash.
Ever since, she's been fighting her body. When she's well she's really, really well and excelling at crazy levels. Then when she's sick, it's often and it's dramatic. She gets horrific headaches, sensitive to light, crazy fatigue etc. Today, she's home because her muscles are inflamed and she just. feels. stiff. Her teachers support the notion that it's health, not social/life issues, and it's for real. Her doctor is great, but her bloods are normal. No vitamin deficiencies, serious illnesses etc.
She needs to learn to pace herself, and she is getting better at it, but it's more than that.
I was thinking about going back to work outside of the home next year, our other child is 7 and I miss it. But I think we're in for the long haul.....
We're off to the Islands for a week soon. I hope she has the strength to handle it.
I am a Mum and a wife. I work from home very part time, and have been retraining for my post kid rearing career by working towards my degree from home. My husband is a research engineer and paid well enough. We live in a brilliant small town. The children are at a great school. We are in very blessed circumstances to be facing such a crappy situation.
Miss 9 has always been an intense kid. She had colic for the first 6 months, could write her name ten days before her second birthday, spent the first 6 weeks of her formal schooling refusing to move from under the table, is academically well above her peers, but also very strong socially and athletically. Sounds like a brag session, but to understand the other side of it you need to hear this, too.
Last year, she had a run of the mill, every kids gets it kind of virus. It morphed into a secondary infection, before she was lumped with post-viral fatigue. As a kid, intense as she was, she never got the tonsilitis, ear ache, small child run of normal ailments. This was the first big crash.
Ever since, she's been fighting her body. When she's well she's really, really well and excelling at crazy levels. Then when she's sick, it's often and it's dramatic. She gets horrific headaches, sensitive to light, crazy fatigue etc. Today, she's home because her muscles are inflamed and she just. feels. stiff. Her teachers support the notion that it's health, not social/life issues, and it's for real. Her doctor is great, but her bloods are normal. No vitamin deficiencies, serious illnesses etc.
She needs to learn to pace herself, and she is getting better at it, but it's more than that.
I was thinking about going back to work outside of the home next year, our other child is 7 and I miss it. But I think we're in for the long haul.....
We're off to the Islands for a week soon. I hope she has the strength to handle it.
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