Yeah, the reason Brooke is blurry is because she's so busy dancing????? Must be the crazy fever?????Ummm...I'm the first to say thank you to any and all school staff. I adore the public school system. I have a great friend who is a school nurse and I hear her woes and feel bad that she has to deal with sick kids and lame parents. I, also, have been a school employee, I know what it's like to work with children who are sick and not want to get sick yourself or take germs home to your family. I get it!!!
That being said, let me just break it down for everyone...
Brooke has been using her voice lots lately...she yells at me during badminton (we all know I don't like to move my feet and run up to the net), she's been singing to Hannah Montana A LOT, she has been exhausted by bedtime this whole week and has been yelling for me from upstairs a fair amount (read: enough to make the hairs on my arms stand up and think about changing my name from Mommy to Crystal)...plus we all seem to have some post nasal drip thing...between the air conditioning and the evidently astronomical local mold counts (saw that on the news) from the daily rain we've been getting this past week or so. Anyway, Brooke told me she had a scratchy throat this morning and I thought to myself "no $#!%, me too." At any rate, she had no fever and so I sent her to school.
So around 11 am I get a call from the school nurse to come get Brooke. Edited for clarity: Evidently, Brooke's throat was feeling scratchy at school during recess and she thought the nurse would give her a cough drop (since her previous school would administer cough drops if needed) but instead she took her temp and called me to come get her, Brooke did not ask to come home. I initially felt bad because I never want to send a "sick" child to school...sometimes it's a hard call...and sometimes your call is wrong and you really do have to pick up a kid with a 104 fever....woops, and of course the kids always tell the nurse that they told their mom this morning they didn't feel well, but they sent them to school anyway.
So I get the call from the nurse and I head over to pick up Brooke. Uhh, she supposedly had a 100.3 fever...as she came inside from recess... in 90 degree weather...and the scratchy throat has mysteriously disappeared after drinking some water. I also have tried in earnest to get our fancy and expensive thermometer to read higher than 98.0 but I can't seem to get it to.
So here is my quandary...she is supposed to be fever free for 24 hours before sending her back..that means she doesn't get to go back to school until Tuesday...which when I clarified this with the school nurse she had a 2 minute personal party when she realized that it was a long holiday weekend. She was somehow able to collect herself and confirm that return date when she realized I was still standing in the office with her.
So Brooke came home to "rest and recuperate" which consisted of eating hot dogs, playing in her room when she should have been napping like sick kids do and convincing Charlie that watching a DVD would benefit all of us???? So there she is...yeah scroll back up and see my baby "sick as a dog" - completely shameless in the fact that she's singing and dancing around the living room while she's supposed to be getting better for next Tuesday.
I have thoughts of, barring any other advancements in her failing health, taking her to school tomorrow and explaining to the office that I would be happy to buy them a new thermometer...yeah... right after I drop my daughter off at school today. Any thoughts???
And yes, it is not lost on me that earlier this week I was sad that my children were going to school and leaving me...how quickly we see the beauty in life's changes!!
5 comments:
I know u kids never tried that with Mom and I. But here is what I would hvae done. IN TO BED, NO TV, NO PHONE,NO GAMES ,CHICKEN SOUP AND HOT TEA.
Then plan an outing with the rest of the kids.Yep Thats what dear old DAD would have done
In fact mom made me clean my room once when I was sick. And I mean could not even move from the pain of being ill sick and I had to clean and I quote, "As long your home you are going to clean". Nothing like a little hard labor to cure you, even when you truly are sick.
Is that the Hannah Montanna video that you vetoed? I see a pattern here. Just so ya know.. the world never stopped from playin hookey.. I comend Brooke for her fine performance.
Hey I think it's great that you meet these new challenges. welcome to the parent trap.
Ok, my mom is a nurse, not a school nurse, mind you, but a nurse nonetheless. And for over 40 years now. Her bedside manner after working all day was not conducive to faking anything, nor even to ever being sick. Her standard replies to everything we had (and I do mean truly HAD, like fevers and mono and food poisoning once) were: 1) I've seen worse, and 2) You're not bleeding. Get dressed.
Of course as a persnickety high schooler, I often figured that maybe I was bleeding internally and when I ended up in the ICU later in the week, well, then maybe she'd think twice about her awful, uncaring attitude.
FYI, I got a blue pin for perfect attendance from grades 5 through 12. Woo Hoo! Yeah, it was so worth it. My friends were really impressed with me.
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