Well It's Never Boring But Always Stressful

Yikes.
Aye carumba.
Holy crap.
WTF?

These are the phrases I utter the most during the course of a day. Yesterday was no different.

What started out as a good and ordinary day, took a drastic turn for the worse. The kids had early dismissal yesterday. No biggie. I get the kiddos off the bus, and Spenser tells me that this bully of a kid who is not supposed To be sitting next him, because he has picked and poked at Spenser before, hurt him yet again. He apparently was trying to see if my sons head was springloaded, and would bounce back after being pushed to one side. He pushed until Spensers head touched his shoulder. Spenser of course did not tell the driver, because he was afraid. I do not blame him.

Anyway I check his neck, and he is fine. We get home they play great time had by all. We left the house at 3:45 to go get Rob from my mothers abode. His neck was fine. He was fine. His neck was maybe a little tender from the bully, but he was fine. I stop at the local Golden Arches of Heart Failure, and get them a treat of a McFlurries. All was well!

Fast forward to 4:30 ish. Rob arrives, he picks up Spenser to give him a hug, and notices that Spenser has what appears to be a goiter on his neck. Right up along the jaw line, and down into the neck. It looked like someone took 1/2 a grapefruit, and shoved it under his skin, it was so swollen. It now also hurt him to move his head. I freaked. Rob got pissed because at this point we thought it was from the bully. We rush home, basically kick Rob and the 3 faux children out of the moving car, and haul ass to Urgent Care.

To make a really really long story short, it turns out that his neck, though swollen with a huge protuberance, is fine. He has strep. The part that the doctor said:
"I don't like this, I don't like this at all." was the part where it suddenly swelled to ginormous proportions. He had a 101* fever too when they took his temp. They ended up taking blood. That is always so much fun. He was so scared they would take it from his neck, it was pitiful.

They tried to get a line in for an IV on his hand, but apparently he has 90 year old man veins, because they had to move to the crook of his arm. He got 30 minutes of IV Augmentin(antibiotics), and they took blood also. We were there until 8 last night.

The thing that gets me is that he so asymptomatic. Today, you would not even know he was ill. Only if you looked at his bulgey neck would you think something was amiss.

As for the bully, they will move this child, or they will have a lot more to deal with. I am for the moment calm, and willing to let the school take the course of action it deems appropriate. If this child even so much as gives my child the stink eye, he, his parents, and the school will rue the day. They are supposed to have zero tolerance. Apparently it should be renamed 3rd and 4 th chance tolerance, because this is third or fourth time he has picked on Spenser so much as to warrant him telling me.

I hate bullies. This just tells me his parents must be, let's just say interesting. I think bullying is a learned behavior.

So, that was my evening. How was yours?

Like I said, it's never boring in my life, always stressful though!

:)