He was bright eyed and bushy tailed at 6am this morning. I finally got up and gave him his dose of meds, in applesauce, at 7:20am. He ate some cereal and left over popcorn and before 8am was roaring to go outside to his friends house! He's now vacuuming the spilled left over popcorn off the couch and ottoman and watching Super Mario Bros on Netflix...
It's 9am and I got him to sit down and work on a Grade 1 workbook. He was printing some words when I noticed he wasn't writing his /u/ properly so he then did the /u/ sheet, finished the other sheet and asked if he could color. We found a rhyming sheet with -at and -et words and he did GREAT. He's reading much better than usual and worked those sheets with Joshua playing Wii and daddy picking up and vacuuming the house!! Attention is much better but now that he's taking a break he's demanding what he wants to do and throwing a temper tantrum when he can't have it.
Around 11:30am he was helping me with the dishes when he stated that his heart hurt! I stayed calm and had him go lay down on my bed. I don't have a blood pressure cuff small enough for kids and don't know normal numbers anyway. I placed my hand over his heart and could feel everything going on, too many bumps/beats to count a pulse. I don't know if this is normal or not so best option I have is to take him up to the firestation which is 2 blocks from the house and have one of the paramedics check his pressure. Fireman Jeremy was happy to help out. Joey's pulse was 88 and his BP was 99/70 PERFECT. I don't know why his heart hurt but I know that it wasn't his pressure or rate. Maybe an irregular rate was occurring? I will mention this to the pediatrician when I call. He also mentioned to me, and I don't recall if I wrote this yet or not, but that his head was hurting him yesterday. Like his whole brain was hurting. I'll be mentioning that as well though today he says his head is not hurting.
12:30pm I took him and his little brother Jon to the grocery store, he did a GREAT job. Jonny wasn't so great and not interested in going to the next store so I took him and the groceries home and then Joey and I went to Michaels for some paint and stickers etc for finishing up his raingutter regatta for Tiger Scouts. The race is a week from today. He did an excellent job shopping with him but to be fair, shopping has never been an issue with him. We came home, had a late lunch and he is now in the little 12'x30" pool in our backyard. The biggest issues I have now is he is major motor mouth with no stopping and quite a bit more active in spite of his ability to concentrate better for longer periods. I'm pretty sure this isn't the right med for him but I'm more positive now than ever that he does indeed have ADHD!
He had some cereal for breakfast, not much. A hot dog on a bun, pickles and some chips/dip for lunch. He asked for two hot dogs but only ate one. He can have the other for dinner or he can have the grilled chicken I have marinating.
He didn't eat dinner, too busy playing outside with his friend. I'm so proud of him for being where he was supposed to be instead if two blocks over! He came home when I told him to. Got ready for bed. 4mg of melatonin and about 5oz of diet coke and he's sound asleep by 9pm!!!
Now the question is, knowing this is not the exact med for him, do I give it again tomorrow or give him nothing????
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