For over two weeks my son has been acting like there is
something wrong. He’s quiet. He barely talks, doesn’t eat much. He’s cooperative. He even dresses himself in the morning. He ASKS to go to bed by 7 every night.
I know. “Sounds like
the ideal child!” But it’s not MY child!
Is he coming down with something? Is he hurt?
Is he being bullied? Is he being
molested?? Since he’s autistic, he doesn’t
communicate well. “I’m ok!” is the
answer to my thousands of questions. His
answer volume gets progressively louder in response to the number of questions I
ask.
I finally got worried
enough that I took him in to the pediatrician.
He’s checking him over going through the normal tests and is starting to
tell me that he isn’t seeing anything but if I’m seeing lethargic behavior; I
should follow up with our regular pediatrician and have some blood work
done. By now he’s looking at my son’s
ears and he stops and does a double take.
He has something that looks like either paper or plastic way
down deep in his ear. Two days later, we
are at the hospital to have whatever it is surgically removed. They have us come about an hour ahead and
that’s WAY too much time. Mr. Man is
bored silly. He doesn’t want to watch
tv. He wants to get into stuff. Then he wants to go. I am able to keep him entertained for a short
while with my cell phone and then resort to playing catch with a blown up
rubber glove.
The procedure itself takes less than fifteen minutes. The doctor talks to me first. The item is some crusty (it had apparently
been in there a while) piece of what looks like a string off of my daughter’s
pom-pom. We get to take it home as a souvenir. A couple of minutes later the recover nurse
comes in. She says that they’ll be bringing
my son back in a minute and he’s doing great.
Apparently he sat up the second the anesthesia wore off and said “Hi! Am I done?”
We finished up there and he was ravenous. Fed him and now… I have my son back. He bounces off the walls, doesn’t listen,
highly distractible, amazingly happy and cute, little boyJ
Mothers – pay attention to your instincts. If you think there’s something wrong, you’re
probably right!
