New boy
There's a new boy in Zoë's class. He's Indian, and he has brown skin, which Zoë apparently found very special and beautiful. I don't know precisely what she did, but I can just imagine her touching him and looking at his skin admiringly...
Doctor
I had to go to school to pick up Zoë yesterday. She wasn't well. She fell asleep a couple of times in the morning and slept through lunch. When I got there, she was participating in a group circle and didn't want to go home, but I thought it best to do so.
She cried most of the way home until I finally worked out what she was saying. She kept saying the name of her school and saying "Zoë's school" and a few other words I couldn't decipher. She was afraid that she wasn't going to be allowed to go back! Why she would think this I can't imagine, but she seemed to think I was taking her away for good, and she was so upset! When I told her that it was okay, that we were going to get some lunch (I gave her a choice; she chose McDonald's) and then go home because she was tired and not feeling well, and that she could go back to school again when she was well. She seemed to understand, and she settled down, and got very excited about going to McDonald's for lunch.
The problem appeared to be her right eye. Last week, she somehow scratched the eyelid (just on the top) and it was bothering her, so she kept rubbing her eye. She ended up giving herself an eye infection. Her eye was red, watery, the infection was making the whole area red and making her generally unwell (and tired).
I called out doctor and they were totally booked for Friday, so we took her to a local evening doctor clinic and got a prescription for antibiotics, which we got filled at a late-night chemist.
She's staying home today. Eye infections can be contagious, but more to the point, I think she needs to rest. She'll go back Monday and then Tuesday is a holiday (ANZAC day), and then go back on Wednesday again, but I expect the infection to be mostly under control by Monday, as it's already looking much better.
Parties and headaches
Zoë went to her uncle's birthday party yesterday. She was terribly excited about it, had been looking forward to it since the invitation arrived several weeks ago. She got to wear a new dress and tights (which she proclaimed to be "sock pants", a pretty good description!), and the party was at a restaurant that has an indoor playground.
She was very well behaved, over all. She was clear on what she wanted for lunch (chicken nuggets, no surprise, although she did appear to at least consider the sausages and chips), and the only real problem we had with her was the minor tantrum she threw when she realized she was going to have to eat her lunch before we'd let her go to the playground. She did eventually eat, but she was showing signs of being unwell. She kept lying down against me, covering her eyes, and saying "Ow" in reference to her head. A half of an adult pain reliever seemed to help considerably, and she did play on the playground and ended up having a very good time and being very nicely behaved all afternoon.
Unfortunely, when the pain reliever wore off in the evening, she was very unhappy, indeed, and clearly had a very bad headache. We gave her children's pain reliever and put her to bed and she ended up vomiting all over the bed and herself, poor kid. She kept saying "Sorry! Sorry!" and was very concerned about the teddy bear who had copped a lot of the vomit (he's fine, in case you, too, are concerned).
We got her cleaned up and gave her some more pain reliever (liquid this time instead of the children's tablets) and gave her clean pyjamas and got her settled on the big, soft, comfy bean bag chair with a pillow and her favorite feather quilt, and she fell asleep and slept all night.
In the morning, she got up and went to the cupboard and was found trying to get the children's pain reliever down for herself! (She didn't manage to get it; we keep it quite high and out of easy reach.)
She's now been lying down off and on all day, and seems to have further gastric disturbances (to put it politely).
Our first thought was that she suffers from migraines. She probably does, in fact, as we've seen signs of it for a long time, since she was about three. Migraines run in the family quite significantly, for at least four generations, and certainly it looked like a migraine yesterday (even the vomiting).
Today, though, I'm wondering if perhaps it might be some sort of viral thing, because I've never heard of having this much gastric trouble along with a migraine, and I believe that migraines that last for more than a day are fairly rare (I know it happens, but I don't think it's common; I'll have to investigate further).
Possibly the gastric issues are entirely coincidental and she did/does have a migraine, or possibly the chocolate she's been eating lately (small amounts, but with her it does become cumulative, as she appears to be somewhat allergic to the stuff) has finally caught up with her.
Next time we see her pediatrician, we're definitely going to mention the migraines (we're positive she gets those) and maybe ask a few questions about that. Nanna thinks we should take Zoë to the doctor she's been seeing for years, who does laser accupuncture (I know our insurance will cover acupuncture, but I don't know if laser is included; we'll find out when we call after the long holiday).
I'm just going to do more research on migraines and see just what is and isn't associated with them.
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