It's been a while since I posted on my blog. I have been so busy with the last few weeks of school among other things that I have been slacking! So sorry!
I recently posted on my facebook page about my oldest son, Trey, having strep. Well, here is the story behind that status update.......
Thursday morning (the first day of summer break sleep in) Crockett wakes me up at 745am. This is too early for me so I make him lay down on the couch and watch cartoons while I snooze in my chair. Trey wakes up at 945am and comes into the living room just as bouncy and happy and snuggles up with me in my chair. When he starts talking to me I notice that his voice sounds different. I think it's a hereditary thing because when my voice sounds different, I either have a sore throat or I am getting strep. Anyway, as soon as I hear the change in his voice, I ask him if his throat is hurting. He responds with a no and goes about his morning, riding the scooter thru the house and asking for every piece of food in the house.
We get ready and go meet everyone for lunch at Arbys in Southaven and he eats a hearty lunch of a regular roastbeef and some curly fries and a big ole mountain dew (I know! I know! !). We go straight to Target and do a little browsing and the entire time I keep asking him if his throat hurts. He keeps telling me no and by hour 5 of me asking him that, every 30 minutes or so, he finally gets frusterated and yells at me. I can't really blame him cause I know it would annoy me too!
At about 2ish, I tell my mom that I am going to take Trey to the doctor and when she asks why, I tell her because Treys voice has changed and I KNOW he has strep. She takes my word for it now when I think something is wrong and she immediately told me she would keep Crockett while I took Trey to the doctor. At this point Trey begins acting kinda puny and very moody and asks to go to the car. Now if you know Trey, you know he does not want to leave Target EVER!
Trey's pediatrician had an available appointment for 2:30pm so we went straight there. We were pretty much immediately taken back to the room. When we got back there and they asked what was wrong, I told her that I was 99.999999999% positive that he had strep throat. She asked if he had a soar throat, I said no. She asked if he had fever, I said no. She asked if he had nausea, I said no. She asked if he had loss of appitite, I said no. She asked if he was acting sick or out of the ordinary, again I said no. She looked at me like I was crazy but still did the throat swab. As she left the room, the doctor walked in. He looked at his throat, ears, eyes and nose and said everything looked fine. He said, he doubted anything would come of the swab and he wouldn't need medicine but to watch him. As he left the office, the nurse came back and said, "The test was positive." The doctor said, "The test was WHAT?!" She repeated herself and he peeked into the room and said, "Ok, well, I guess momma knows!"
Yep! Momma knows! We got our prescription and went on our way. They also informed me when I was leaving that Schnuks gives free Oral Antibiotics. I walked into Schnuks, gave them my prescription and walked out 30 minutes later with the prescription and having paid nothing. I also read, for those of you having babies, they fill prescription prenatal vitamins for free too!
When we got home, Trey started acting sickly and took a long nap. He woke up the next morning feeling MUCH better and ready to start the weekend!
Now, I know that moms just have that God given intuition about them that allows them to "just know" when something is wrong but momma's of non-verbal children or children with disabilities and lack of communication skills have to read non verbal cues with their children so often, they know something is wrong before outward signs show. Because it has always been so hard for Trey to communicate what is wrong when he is sick, I have always known that his voice changes when it's strep. When he is about to throw up, he swallows alot and his eyes water. When he has to go number 2, he gets all serious, furrows his brow and doesn't think ANYTHING is funny. It also helped me when I was trying to poo poo train my youngest. I watched his non-verbal cues (and they were only non-verbal cause he chose not to tell me about them, not because he couldn't) and I knew and still know, when he needs to go. No fooling this mommy!
Just a little word of encouragement for those that have infants and young children, non-verbal children, limited communcative children or just special needs children in general........you can use this special God given/Supernatural abililty of intuition and "just knowing" to your advantage and you are AWESOME!!! And for those of you without it........FINALLY there is something for you to be jealous of! Eat your heart out! (And I mean that in the nicest way possible!)
