Day 2

Well today was definitely a better day academically!

We did start the day a little late, I rolled over in bed sometime early in the morning and nearly scared myself half to death, as someone was in bed with me!  I thought in my sleep it was jeff and then went wait a minute Jeff is not home!  Of course I am blind as a bat, so even more scary.  It turned out to be my little sweetie Gigi who had come into bed with her own blanket, because she knows I don't share mine, and she didn't wake me up, but she had a bad dream last night.

So it was about 9:20 when the kids started to do their school work, they all bythemselves, when they were done eating were excited to find their books, and figure out what they were supposed to be doing.  They read the MBTP instructions and then found out they were to read two chapters.  So they started reading, Nathan started complaining that his eyes hurt, he said he felt a lot of pressure on his eyes and they felt weird when he was reading.  I kept on encouraging him to read on.  Well 45 minutes in they both still had plenty of reading to do.  So I decided to take them upstairs and I would read to them from my cozy bed.  Well I knew Nathan was complaining about how much reading they had to do today, but I was not expecting to spend 2 hours this morning reading!  The chapter was sooooo long, and kinda boring.  I posted about this on a MBTP forum, and a bunch of parents said they felt this way at the beginning of the book as well, but the book does get better!  Thank-goodness for that.  This is the first MBTP book that I am not really enjoying reading.  It is called The View From Saturday.

So after completing their reading they didn't have much time for anything else, as it was already 11:30, and we have to leave at 12:30 to go to piano.

But Nathan and Genevieve completed these assignments

1) anwer chapter questions

2) Flow chart of events from yesterdays chapter

3) they then made a vocabulary game cube, gig started this by rolling the cube and then she would write a sentence with the word that was rolled.  She had to use the dictionary to look up a few words.

- When Nathan started playing I told them they could do it orally to save Nathan's hands.  We definitely learned some new vocab words and I think the kids enjoyed that they had to cut out the cube and tape it together and then play the game, it was definitely one of the more fun vocab exercise
 from MBTP

And after this we had to eat and take off to Piano


I had planned on doing math while each of them took turns in Piano, but I had to do a few errands, go to the bank, get new glasses, and pick up a refill on Nathans prescription so I decided to drop the two of them off.

While I was driving I got a text that Nathan was having an episode.  I must admit at this moment I had a bit of time that I felt why me, why oh why isn't it ever normal.   I was finding it crazy that I was on my way to pick up my 11 year olds sons medication to help control his blood pressure, and I get this text.  Most mothers don't have to deal with this.  Okay it might have lasted a few moments longer more like about 2 hours I was like really really, what the heck is going on with him...

anyway so this is what happened to him today

Nathan was sitting in waiting room while Genevieve was in taking her lessons.  He says he was closing his eyes giving them a rest (right there that's a sign something is not right, Nathan never rests), and he says he started to see spots.  He opened his eyes and they were everywhere bright multicolored dots everywhere and squiggly lines that looked kind of like the northern lights.  He waited about 5 minutes before he went and decided he better tell his teacher as usually it does not last this long.  So he went and told her, it lasted a little bit longer and then went away for about 2 minutes, and then it came back and lasted about 20 minutes, he said it was very hard to read his music as the dots were getting in the way, he could not see the music sheet.    So after it went away, he had a headache for about 30 minutes. 

When we got home he seemed in good spirits, he went up to his bedroom and fainted on the way up the stairs, thankfully he was able to fall up, and not down.  I am pretty sure it was a presyncope incident and not one of his episodes as he was fully with it when he called me and when I got up to him.  When he has his weird things that I think are drop attacks he always seems confused.  He said he all of a sudden felt his heart racing.  I believe that this was a vasovagal event.  


Both Nathan and Genevieve seemed very happy to be doing school work today and I think they enjoyed it, they were a little disappointed I think that they were not able to do more things on our schedule, who knew it would take 2 hrs to read today!