Schoolyard Drama

T can dish out the drama to her classmates, teachers, and poor old mama as well as any Academy award winning actress. Lets review what happened yesterday in school, and then today....

I arrive to pick T up at the end of the day, to be informed that "she's had a really tough day". Turns out, she scratched John Paul in the back. She claims that she was trying to tag him, and it happened by accident. Problem is, he wasn't playing at the time.

Then, T was accused of something by a mom and another student, that further investigation revealed was false. While in time out after "the incident", T hauled off and shoved Olga off of a bench they were on. T reports that she did it b/c she didn't want Olga to get her in more trouble than she was already in. Oy. Poor T must have been very frustrated and confused at that point.

I'm trying really hard to keep an open mind, and not indict the mom as an overreacting FREAK. If the roles were reversed, who knows how I would handle it. I can guarantee, though, that based upon the same set of circumstances, I would never in a million years claim what this lady was claiming. What would the end of the school year be without some good old stress and drama.

Anyway, T has had a cough for the last week and a half. It got worse last night, and developed a more "wet" sound. T has had what the docs described as a "nervous tick" or "nervous cough" in the past. I figured with the end of school and looming camp, she was displaying the symptoms again. During times of school transition she often starts biting her nails as well. That, though, has not yet started again. Anyway, I figured I'd take her off to the doc to have a listen to her lungs, just to be sure.

Thank god I did. Doc says that she hears something faint and not quite normal in her lower left lung, and asked if I minded if she prescribed an antibiotic to ensure that it doesn't develop into something worse. While the P word was never mentioned, it was clearly implied. Luckily, t is displaying no other symptoms of pneumonia and god knows I dont want her developing it. We shall be starting our liquified z-pac doses tomorrow.