Sickness and Resistance Over

We've had an up and down last week or so. Zachary had an on-again-off-again fever and overall funk that he couldn't seem to shake. When asked "where the owie is" he would point his fingers down his mouth. He had strep (and Mommy was lucky enough to get it too!) back in April, so I feared that - but after a trip to the doc, he had no redness at all and no strep. So then is it his teeth? Or did he just have a sore throat the first day or so that I had asked him, but now he points down his mouth because that what he thinks the answer to my question is? Who knows. He's had very bad double ear infections before, numerous times, that we only found because he failed a hearing test or because we were already going to the doc anyway. That's the part that is the hardest in all of this - not knowing if there is something wrong. Children on the spectrum, and really all special needs kids in general, tend to have a very high tolerance for pain. So what would be driving a "typical" child nuts in terms of physical irritation or pain, is hardly shown by Zachary. So it's a guessing game, and many persistent questions of "show me the owie" and "is this owie" while pushing on his ears. Very heartbreaking to think that he could be in pain, but just dealing with it.

BUT... he's back to his crazy ol' self as of yesterday!!! And it is good to have him back! At the carpool pick-up from school yesterday - he didn't want to get in my car. I'll say that again, he didn't want to get IN my car!!! While a normal parent would be hurt by this, I was thrilled as for 3 weeks he didn't want to go to school or get OUT of my car!!! So this is huge! He's not resisting anymore!

Not much else to report. We went to Sesame Street Live this past weekend, and he had a blast. Now we're back on the Bert & Ernie kick stronger than ever, but he's also added Oscar the Grouch into the mix. I had a big storage bin out yesterday for putting away some of his clothes that don't fit anymore, and it happened to be a pale green color. He immediately got in it and held the lid over his head screaming "don't let the sunshine spoil your mood" over and over - a song that Oscar sings in a movie that he loves. Loved the spontaneous imagination! Not something that's normal and natural for him. Now we've got to work on him getting a happier pretend role model :-)