Things which are not helping:
My perspective is not good this time of year anyway. I'm trying not to do anything drastic. Any input the denizens of LJ have is welcome. This is the situation:
Benjamin has some sort of chronic GI illness. It's being enthusiastically tested at DuPont Hospital. That's 90 minutes from my house.
One of the symptoms is that he vomits. A lot.
The school district policy is that a child must remain home for 24 hours after he or she vomits.
Ben has missed a lot of school.
9 days so far.
The district has a further policy of requiring a doctor's note after the 10th absence, excused or not.
Ben's 10th absence (baring unforeseen vomit) will be this Friday.
I am willing and able to provide doctor's notes for all testing-related absences.
I am unwilling to bring him to the doctor every time he vomits. His puking is a known defect, so to speak, and it would be both ridiculously expensive for us and a waste of the doctor's time to see him every time he throws up.
We appear to be at an impasse.
Benjamin has some sort of chronic GI illness. It's being enthusiastically tested at DuPont Hospital. That's 90 minutes from my house.
One of the symptoms is that he vomits. A lot.
The school district policy is that a child must remain home for 24 hours after he or she vomits.
Ben has missed a lot of school.
9 days so far.
The district has a further policy of requiring a doctor's note after the 10th absence, excused or not.
Ben's 10th absence (baring unforeseen vomit) will be this Friday.
I am willing and able to provide doctor's notes for all testing-related absences.
I am unwilling to bring him to the doctor every time he vomits. His puking is a known defect, so to speak, and it would be both ridiculously expensive for us and a waste of the doctor's time to see him every time he throws up.
We appear to be at an impasse.