Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have a poorly DS. He is never ill so this has me worried. I think he must have had no more than 10 sick days in iver 7 years at school. Three have been this year.

It's exam week and he's been cramming really hard. When I spent time with him earlier, he couldn't get anything done for this quiet wheezy chesty cough. I dosed him up with beechams all in one and sent him to bed.
He is complaining of a bad pain in the side of his chest when the cough comes, hence he can't give it a good old hack.


Just checked on him, he's clammy to the touch in places and drenched in sweat in others.

Exam week is important but I'm actually worried that he may have pneumonia. This may sound like a dreadful
Question but I'm in a quandry. Am I being a crazy mum even considering pneumonia? He's asked me to wake him at 6 as I think he would drag himself to school regardless, but I'm not sure that he should, even with it being the middle of exams. I think H would send him dosed up again for him to at least try.

What would you do? . I'm now worried that school is pushing him too hard and he's breaking a bit.

Get him checked please.
Pains when coughing is worth investigating.

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have a poorly DS. He is never ill so this has me worried. I think he must have had no more than 10 sick days in iver 7 years at school. Three have been this year.

It's exam week and he's been cramming really hard. When I spent time with him earlier, he couldn't get anything done for this quiet wheezy chesty cough. I dosed him up with beechams all in one and sent him to bed.
He is complaining of a bad pain in the side of his chest when the cough comes, hence he can't give it a good old hack.


Just checked on him, he's clammy to the touch in places and drenched in sweat in others.

Exam week is important but I'm actually worried that he may have pneumonia. This may sound like a dreadful
Question but I'm in a quandry. Am I being a crazy mum even considering pneumonia? He's asked me to wake him at 6 as I think he would drag himself to school regardless, but I'm not sure that he should, even with it being the middle of exams. I think H would send him dosed up again for him to at least try.

What would you do? . I'm now worried that school is pushing him too hard and he's breaking a bit.

Call NHS direct. He is not going to perform his best in exams if he is that ill.

silvercar

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I'm ill at the moment, and the above is something that's very true.

As this doesn't come up on Google (and I don't think any of my staff are NP), I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in February. I know I'm possibly going to need surgery in the near future, but the treatment in itself is tiring, even after three months from treatment finish.

On a brighter note, it's my birthday today, so I'll be heading off out this evening :eek:

CK

Hopefully they have caught it early and the treatment has worked. If you haven't been taking it easy then it is not surprising you are still tired. Give yourself some time and some rest.

Happy Birthday!

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

Hopefully they have caught it early and the treatment has worked. If you haven't been taking it easy then it is not surprising you are still tired. Give yourself some time and some rest.

I'm down to anywhere between 20 and 50 hours a week at the moment, plus various council bits. I'm working a lot less than I was this time last year, that's for sure!

The next 2 weeks (I'm going away for work on Saturday) are going to be the main test as to whether I'm well enough to go and do the hours I'm used to; mainly as it's going to be a 200h fortnight whether I like it or not. I'm only in for 6 days between December 4th and (English) Christmas, though, so that may offset to an extent.

Happy Birthday!

Thank you :beer:

CK

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I didn't know the before you, but the after one is pretty darn fabulous

:) Thank you

lostinrates wrote: »

Agree.

Troubles are not one size fits all. What one can cope with depnds on what else one manages.

Sometimes a glass breaking is enough to send one into tears or tantrums, because you have so many balls in the air that you are fried, even if none of them are big heavy ones. Other times it's just because one is run down, emotionally ailing, whatever.

Of course we must support those whose greviences make us squirm with their enormity, but that should not mean we cannot ask for sympathy for our own lifechanging mini dramas. In themselves, 'normal' gripes often help those having major ones remember that life goes on.

I could never have put it as well as that, but I agree with all of it.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have a poorly DS. He is never ill so this has me worried. I think he must have had no more than 10 sick days in iver 7 years at school. Three have been this year.

It's exam week and he's been cramming really hard. When I spent time with him earlier, he couldn't get anything done for this quiet wheezy chesty cough. I dosed him up with beechams all in one and sent him to bed.
He is complaining of a bad pain in the side of his chest when the cough comes, hence he can't give it a good old hack.

Just checked on him, he's clammy to the touch in places and drenched in sweat in others.

Exam week is important but I'm actually worried that he may have pneumonia. This may sound like a dreadful
Question but I'm in a quandry. Am I being a crazy mum even considering pneumonia? He's asked me to wake him at 6 as I think he would drag himself to school regardless, but I'm not sure that he should, even with it being the middle of exams. I think H would send him dosed up again for him to at least try.

What would you do? . I'm now worried that school is pushing him too hard and he's breaking a bit.

As a teacher, I say stuff the exams and get the cough looked at. If he needs treatment, then he needs it sooner rather than later. If just needs to be looked at so that a doctor can put your mind at rest, then he'll only miss one exam, if that, and can catch it up later. Public exams might be worth dragging himself into school for despite being really ill, but internal ones aren't. Every exam week in every school, there are always one or two kids ill. Schools are used to it and have proceedures for letting them catch the papers up later. Hope he feels much better very soon.

Doozergirl

Thanks peeps. Woke him up this morning and there's no way he's going anywhere except straight to the doctor this morning but Lydia, in particular, thank you, I did want to know what a teacher might think. I will email his form tutor now rather than simply let it filter through from reception.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Call NHS direct. He is not going to perform his best in exams if he is that ill.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Thanks peeps. Woke him up this morning and there's no way he's going anywhere except straight to the doctor this morning but Lydia, in particular, thank you, I did want to know what a teacher might think. I will email his form tutor now rather than simply let it filter through from reception.

Hope he's ok. You're definitely doing the right thing IMHO. Internal (mock?) exams can be sat any time.

zagubov

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I'm ill at the moment, and the above is something that's very true.

As this doesn't come up on Google (and I don't think any of my staff are NP), I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in February. I know I'm possibly going to need surgery in the near future, but the treatment in itself is tiring, even after three months from treatment finish.

On a brighter note, it's my birthday today, so I'll be heading off out this evening :eek:

CK

Sorry to hear that, and hope all's going smoothly for you. It's important to keep your strength up and althoughtit's good to keep busy from the point of view of your own morale, don't overburder youself.

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Sorry to hear that, and hope all's going smoothly for you. It's important to keep your strength up and althoughtit's good to keep busy from the point of view of your own morale, don't overburder youself.

1 meeting today and that's it (need to plug a gap in the budget).

I'm tired, but surviving at the moment

JonnyBravo

Doozergirl wrote: »

Exam week is important but I'm actually worried that he may have pneumonia. This may sound like a dreadful
Question but I'm in a quandry. Am I being a crazy mum even considering pneumonia?

Before last week I'd have said yes.
Now I say no.
We currently have a house guest. Friend of MrsJB.
Bad cough last week, antibiotics didn't touch it. Got worse, went back to GP. She could hardly breathe. Oxygen levels checked by GP, straight to hospital. Pneumonia. In ITU on oxygen for 3 days. Hospital for 5 days total. On the mend now but staying with us for a week as still fragile. She was really ill
A fit woman in her 30's. Clean living, healthy.
Flip.
Get it checked.