Ever since the 2016-17 school year started, Tyler has had some puking issues. Yes, he has always been an easy puker, but it has become quite frequent in the past year. Poor guy.
We had decided to move him to a different school this year. Thurgood Marshall is one of the school district's HCC schools. HCC stands for Highly Capable Cohort...basically, gifted. I'm not bragging here. I truly feel that being gifted comes from more than academics. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way the district sees it. But, I'm not going to go into my issues with this program.
The school itself has been lovely. We like the campus, the teachers, the administrators, etc. It's a much bigger school than Montlake, but the community building is still pretty strong. Unfortunately, the whole package has not been a good fit for our boy. The school start time is almost 2 hours after Montlake. Ty still goes to bed and wakes up at the about the same time as Vincent. We have encouraged an earlier bedtime, or for him to sleep in, but let's face it, it's hard to when your brothers aren't in bed, too. The later start means a later dismissal. By the time our guy gets home from school, he's pretty tired.
The first few weeks of the year, he was throwing up 1-2 times a week. It was miserable for all of us. We thought he was overwhelmed by the new, tougher karate class, because it seemed like those were the days he suffered from most. But, looking back, he was just so tired that the extra energy needed for this advanced karate class was already spent. He stopped karate, and it did seem to help a little, but would still have puke spells about once a month.
This is Tyler's typical "puke day" routine: 1) Ty complains that he doesn't feel well, usually in the afternoon; 2) we check his temperature. Usually he has no fever or ever so slightly warmer than usual, but not a true 100.4 fever temperature; 3) we ask him to take it easy, maybe he'll lay down, check in on him from time to time; 4) he pukes; 5) he skips dinner (maybe pukes, again), and takes a nap; 6) he wakes a couple of hours later, is hungry, and feeling better, but we are still very cautious and only let him eat plain food, like crackers; 7) goes to bed for the night; 8) wakes up next morning feeling "Great!" or "Awesome!" Sometimes this varies a little, but it's still pretty close.
All this is to say that yesterday was another puke day. Difference was it involved me taking a Lyft from work to grab the car from home to drive to his school to pick him up.
