My Beautiful Boy

The school holidays are over and today was the first day back at school and just as I predicted Corey refused to go to school.  I’m sure the number of days he’s missed this year must be getting close for the school to put a report in to the education department.  I’m not sure of how many days you can be absent for before that happens.

We have a new symptom or habit now that Corey has just started over the last week.  Now he wont go to sleep at night and cries because he is scared.  He has never been scared in his room at night before.  He use to share a room with Lachlan and then we moved them all into their own rooms which he was really happy with and liked having his own room.  However, Lachlan wasn’t very happy and was scared in his own room and wanted to go back to sharing with Corey.  That is the weird bit, when Corey was with Lachlan before he was fine, when he was on his own he was fine, now he’s sharing again he’s scared.  The last few nights I’ve had to lie down next to him until he has fallen asleep. 

Tonight I put a radio on in his room as he says he hears noises – they have pet rats in another room which I’m sure are the noises he hears.  So I’m hoping the radio will keep him from hearing the noises that the rats make.  It seems to have worked tonight so fingers crossed it will keep working.

Last night lying in bed I thought that maybe I should try a naturopath so today I rang a couple but couldn’t get in for a while.  I really am not thinking straight lately, someone then recommended to me the one on the corner of a particular street and as soon as they said it I couldn’t believe I didn’t think of it, it is right across the road from our house just about.  So I went over there and made an appointment for Wednesday.  They do allergy testing too which should be good, it will make it easier attempting an elimination diet if they can actually find if he is allergic to anything.

So anyway I will keep the blog updated with how the naturopath goes, I really am hoping they can help us since nothing else seems to have helped.  I really want to avoid medication if at all possible so this naturopath really is my last hope.

Thanks for reading and take care
Sheryl
http://www.ourexceptionalkids.com