Oh hooray, my son has strep throat! And the school nurse is stupid!!!

[Halo]

So today was a totally bad day. We got up this morning after sleeping in and headed over the border to Nebraska to do some bday shopping for the kids since their bday is on Friday (yep it was my brilliant idea to have them on Halloween... yep, I actually picked that day. Something about the whole world celebrating their bday or something stupid like that lol). Well, we have no cell phone service across the border... not even something I thought about.

So we get home... the phone is saying we have messages but we were busy and didn't think to check them. Phone rings again. It's the police. They want to know why we haven't picked up our son who is sick when he's been in the office for four hours now and they've been calling and emailing us with no reply. Then she says the school says his temperature was 107.1 YES 107.1 at 3pm. It was now 3:30.

So very VERY VERY upset, we hop in the truck and go to pick him up. Of course the brilliant people at the school thought it would be okay to have us come and pick one son up while the other son was on the bus. Luckily they were able to get the other one off the bus. First thing I asked when I walked in the door was just how high did his temp need to get before you guys sent him to the hospital? They said oh well we were thinking about that but we were trying to get a hold of you. I was like are you serious??!!! Our other son has epilepsy so fevers aren't something we mess around with. At 107.1 damage could already be done! Their excuse was that he fell asleep with his coat on so that could have raised it. Yeah okay but that much??? I've been an EMT for 12 years... don't try to pull that stuff with me! They took his temp again while I was standing there.... 105.9. I told them if you cannot reach us and either of my children's temps gets to 103, call an ambulance, I don't care, just do it. Oh and not to mention the "oh you must not care about your son" looks we got since oh... we have a life and left our home while the kids were in school. I mean seriously, how dare us!!

So we took him to the hospital and oh you should have seen the look on the nurses face when I told her the story. So long story short (sorry for the rant) he has strep and they put him on antibiotics and warned the rest of us we'd probably be sick within the week.

If they can't handle a fever... how am I supposed to feel safe in the event that my other son has a seizure while he is there?!?!?!

[guest1717171]

back in texas i had to throw a fit a couple times in the office because the nurse there was an idiot

but really - i wonder how high the temperature would have to get before he was sent to the hospital?

im sure there are a lot of people who are out of contact during school hours. didnt they have another relative to call? we have like 5 on our list.

even so, you give you children to the school to care for all day. they should have been more than capable of making a decision regarding your son's health - ie; send him to the freaking ER

i was so tempted to home school but i know i dont have the patience to teach josh everything he needs....i worry about him at school all the time lol

so youll be sick soon. strep is fun. can birds get strep? i know rats could...

[alwaysontimneh]

Not everyone gets strep but usually when people get it they get it a lot. I had a friend growing up who always got strep and so did my sister but I never got it for some reason.

I would have been livid if I were you, they should have sent him to the hospital.

I hate stupid people!

[TikusMom]

You know, common sense should have told them....ANYONE for that matter....that regardless of HOW his temp got to 107 is a moot point. The fact that 107 is dangerously high and potentially life threatening is all that matters! For that matter 105 is dangerously high! Stupid school politics.

Several years ago my daughter fell at recess and broke her arm. I get the call from the school nurse and she says "Her arm might be broken. Should we send her to the hospital and just have you meet her there?" I said YES! They ended up calling back and telling us they were just going to have her wait there at school. Okay, at that point hubby and I are car pooling. He works an hour away from me, I'm an hour away from home, so my daughter had to wait about 2 hours until we could get there!!! Her lower arm (both radius and ulna) were broken in half!!! her arm was a V shape!! I was like "You THINK it's broken??? Tell me again why you couldn't just send her to the dang hospital!"

I feel your pain sister. Sometimes they are so worried about law suits that they forget to worry about the kids!

[hollyhawkz]

We don't even have school nurses! It's crazy! As soon as kids are sick, parents or guardians are called and asked to come get them.

[mmr]

Rule of thumb is if a feaver gets higher than 104.5-105 to get in a cool bath to lower the temp ASAP and then to the emergency room! That is our schoold policy at least.

[Halo]

Yeah, I thought it should be common sense too, which is why that was the first thing I asked when I walked in the door. I was livid and it showed on my face I guess because when I walked in the room, the school secretary took a couple of steps backwards like "omg she's going to kill me". I just couldn't believe it. Even worse, the school principal was standing right there too!!! It makes me wonder what is going to happen if Eian has an emergency there and makes me want a seizure dog even faster!! Otherwise they are likely to think he's just playing and let him lay there and seize until I come to pick him up!!! If he were to have a seizure and they called me before doing anything (they already have a protocol at the school... he has a medication that should be given to him when he starts to seize to bring him out of it) I would be so upset it would probably take every person in this state to keep me from wringing someones neck!

I also forgot to mention the nurses other "excuse" for why they didn't send him to the hospital. She said that they are supposed to take their thermometer to the hospital to have it calibrated every so often and they hadn't done it so their equipment could just be way off. I just shook my head. I guess that's a drawback to a small town school. People get hired because of who they are related to and not because they know their backside from a hole in the ground.

We considered home school too Geek but I'm like you, I know I don't have the patience it would take and my oldest has so many issues with learning already because of his brain disorder that I just couldn't do it. His Kindergarten teacher is amazing but the first grade teacher.... oh she is a pain in the butt! She questions everything and she got on my bad side when she refused to let Eian go to the bathroom during class and then yelled at him for having an accident!! (He had surgery on his kidney at 4 months old and if he holds it and gets a UTI, we're talking kidney replacement) It was all I could do to keep my husband from going down there and yelling at her lol. We are considering moving them to another school since we live in the county, we do have a choice but the other school is much bigger and I'm not sure Eian could handle it as well. It's sort of one of those things where there's more good than bad (or there was till yesterday lol).

[Addicted to Tequila]

I do hope you have an IEP Halo!

I homeschooled for two years (3rd and 4th grades).

[red192]

Is 107.whatever like something SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! DUH! I guess he had to reach 110! Hope he's feeling better mom! Blow him a kiss from us!

[Halo]

Yes, we have an IEP. Of course, I am upset that it didn't get renewed first thing this year... they are waiting until it's been a year and they didn't do things they said they were going to do last year. It's like they just aren't concerned about him. Drives me NUTS!!!

We're starting to see home schooling as the only option.