Eric's been getting illness after illness since starting school, and as you all know I've been trying new meds different dosages, etc and there's all kinds of things happening and it's just so hard to read. I have no idea what's going on half the time.
example
He just had his 3rd "poop plosion" today
The kid was scared to death. Screaming "I had a plosion! I had a Plosion MOM! It's POOP and it ploded every where! LOL :haha: (I know not funny, but, it was so cute. How does he know the word explosion and what it means?) All the suppositories, laxatives, stool softeners, home remedies, etc and we never had this happen, and he didn't know what was going on. Same tummy ache as usual before he went, but it was just liquid with floaties and so forceful. He kept saying "I sorry Mom. It just came and I didn't know what to do." Like he was in trouble:sad5: .

So now I'm thinking "It could be a bug" especially since this is something we never see, but with all that's going on, who knows for sure. And soon we'll be starting a new medication and changing his reflux meds once again and who knows what his poop will do, so I can only assume that the miralax will change too.

Well..
What I'm getting at is I don't think I can send him to school anymore....sigh.... bug after bug after bug, and we are trying to diagnose and find the best course of treatment here. Not only that but the little guy feels like total bunk right now. Normally any kid would be taken out of school.
BUt the thought of taking Eric out breaks my heart, and really he'll feel just as bad, probably worse if he stays home. Staying home isn't going to make him well KWIM?
How am I supposed to get through the next few months of med changes and testing, etc with school germs getting in the way of everything?
My brain is screaming take him out of school, but my heart is saying NO NO NO you can't do that to him. He loves it more than anything, and it's teaching him so much, at least on the days he manages to stay away from the bathroom and actually gets to do stuff with the other kids.

Which answer is the right one?

UGH! I just want him to feel good. I want him to get better and if all these stupid colds and crap stand in the way of it...sigh... I just don't know what to do.

I have no idea what to tell you. My first thought was, NO! NO! He loves school, but like you said it is not doing him any good to be sick all the time. Ugg, I just don't know what I would do in your position.

Sorry.:sad5::hug:

I have been thinking about this all day. I still can't come up with an answer. Are you sure it is school? Well, it probably is.

Can you keep him home for a few weeks, maybe until after X-mas and see if you can get him good and well. See if school is really causing things to be crazy and then try and send him back in the new year?

If school really brings him so much joy ...don't take him out.

Poor Eric has already been through so much....let him do what he can, when he can.

Don't take that away from him.

The current poop thing may keep him home a day or so if it keeps up...just be sure to get his homework.

:hug:

my 2 cents

I'm gonna send him this week, and then comes Christmas break. A whole 2 weeks off! Hopefully the GI gets off his butt and decides what he wants to do and talks to his new doctor and something gets worked out, and trialed before he goes back. I'll make up my mind after the break, but I have a feeling I'm gonna go ahead and tough it out and let him catch everything under the sun.
You guys he cheered and screamed with joy when I told him today was a school day. I can't take him away from that, unless I absolutely have to.

Minnie, both my kids have never been in any kind of daycare and when Cooper went last year, it really kicked all our butts, especially Parkers. I think I heard from every tom, dick and harry that this is needed so that he gets immunity, he gets sick in one hit and thats that.

Anyway, they were right, especially in regards to Cooper and Dan and I didn't get sick this winter much at all. In fact, it was pretty uneventful.

So I suppose what I am getting at is, I think you should perservere, if he didn't like going, then I think my answer would be different, but he is going to get sick, whether you do it now or next year. Better he get sick now and have days off when it isn't as important as next year KWIM?

The poop 'plosion' lol, may have been a bug, but who knows unless he gets sicker. So I would sit on it for the 2 weeks and see how he goes. Maybe in that time you can sort out his meds, so that when he is back in school, then it isn't a problem. The point is whether it be this year, next year or whenever, you will probably always have medicine problems (this from me, who actually asked the teacher if Parker could self medicate himself at lunchtime :rolling: she almost had a heart attack- of course I would put the dose in a syringe and it would have to be kept in the fridge)

Niamh was just basically constantly sick the entire winter, from mid-November to the last week of February, getting a new virus or bug every 7 to 10 days. It was crazy! She had major whole body rashes twice that looked like measles with fever for 5 days straight each time, various fevers and coughs and colds and tummy bugs with diarrhea and vomiting and so on.. it was HORRIBLE.. but it is also completely over now :D Seriously, if our GERDlings have not been around other kids much until now (which most haven't, considering the amount they have had to deal with so far), they usually do have to go through at least one winter of being constantly ill to build up their immunities. I found giving Niamh vitamin syrup did help a little, maybe a teaspoon of fish oil now and again and making sure she got plenty of fresh air (when she wasn't in bed with a fever of course..erg) to help prevent her from getting run down, but basically it's just a game of thumb-twiddling and waiting for their immune systems to catch up. Thankfully after making no progress oral-aversion wise all winter due to all the illnesses, she's making up for lost time now, starting to really eat and enjoy foods properly so that I can actually see the end of the whole aversion thing really coming! (WOOHOO), her reflux has also calmed down again since the illnesses stopped (I think the phlegm and tummy problems prevent meds being absorbed properly). She also had a huge growth spurt these past couple of weeks.
I hope Eric will be coming out of his sicky phase now, he's the same age as Niamh so hopefully they'll both get a good break from it all now, and enjoy school! (Niamhy starts her school in September).

kids get like every bug the 1st year is school/daycare