my 14yo is at school and is telling them all sorts of crap gaining multiple trips to the nurses' office. it appears to me and the nurse there that he's making it all up, wanting to come home. "I feel like I'm out of my body, the room is moving..." crap like that. I had her take his BP, it is FINE. His temp and other vitals are NORMAL. He ate bfast but had her give him a snack, *just in case* his glucose levels were low. He looks just as normal as he always does. He *does* have a history of migraines and while what he's describing matches *MY* migraine aura profile, it does not match his and although his could be evolving, he's complained of no headache, albeit entirely possible to have aura only, but we've given him tylenol prophylactically so who knows. I talked to him and he *sounds* just fine. So, told him if he came home sick, there'd be no tv for the rest of the day - sick people need to be in bed not watching tv. If he came home and I could tell he wasn't sick, he'd be doing chores the rest of the day. Told him he'd have 30 minutes to lay in the nurses' office to 'feel better' then needed to go back to class. The nurse loved the idea ROFLMAO. Reminded her that she was free to voice her opinion to me if it looked like a total fake job and to put it in his file if she wanted for future reference...

Now, the lil sh*t needs to get back to class!

tough momma!!! way to go!!!

yeh my son was of ill last week ..hes 9...decided he didnt want to go in this week either...he went in and hey guess what he was just fine lol

Thanks gals :)
You'd think this kid would get that you can't fool the mom who is an RN ROFL goofball!

Something tells me there's an assignment long overdue or a test that didn't get studied for

Hope it's not a Columbine thing and he's being bullied

yeh hes a very good actor ...thr throwing himself on the floor holding his throat is a dead give away

GOOD JOB MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have had to do the same with mine.YOU won't beleave how fast they get better when they don't get away with that crap.

I always tell the nurse that, no fever, no blood, no vomiting, go back to class. If they fuss in the AM, I tell them I'll drag them to the bus in their PJ's! But just like me from work, they get to take a mental health day every once in awhile as long as the grades are up!

I use to pull that stuff too. My mom couldn't send me to my room because I had a bunch of things in there and she's handicapped so it was too hard for her to move it all. So she told me that if I came home sick the only TV i'd get to watch were her soap operas lol I know more about one life to live and general hospital than I care to admit lol. Let's just say after 2 days of that I didn't want to come home sick so much.

It was only because I was being bullied though.

The bully thing is a good point. I just read Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, great book. But even before reading that, when my kids would piss and moan about not wanting to go to school I always ask very pointed questions about what might be bothering them. Every parent should.

My oldest son used to go to the nurse's office a lot! The nurse and I even knew eachother, by first names. He was just homesick. One day we decided she was to politely send him back to class. She called me in tears because that very day he did in fact have an allergic reaction to something and had a terrible rash. Each kid is so different, my middle son would try to go to school, when he really was too sick, to go. He just didn't want to miss out seeing his friends.