Yesterday when Hunter came home from school, he still had that sort of out-of-it look on his face. He started and argument with me over *nothing* and just kept it going. During what should have been just a normal discussion, he was over-reactive and his mind was twisting my words into negative meanings. He was very belligerent, was talking over me really loud, interrupting, just acting very odd for him. I made a reference to 'teenagers' not getting expensive cars because they are very hard on them, do cookies in them, drift them on the ice into snowbanks, don't clean them, drive them into the river on purpose (all things he has done and told me about :) and his response? "I am not a teenager! I am and adult". Um, 18 is still a teenager.... Again, he would argue against what is obviously a fact. Nonsensical!
Anyway, that behavior is just not like him at all. He has two kinds of episodes: The kind where it seems he has mono and he is totally exhausted and just sleeps and sleeps and the second kind where he is really furiously angry, totally antisocial and introverted. It is written all over his face: one look at him and I know we are having the really bad, emotional kind. Those can last a couple to a few days. During the really angry ones, his emotions get completely out of control if he is pushed in any way, and he does not talk. It is best to just leave him alone and not try to talk to him.
This was different from both of the above types because he had the 'out of it' look on his face, but was 'venting' rather than avoiding human contact, and was on the offensive. I can only recall one other time a few years ago where we had a similar episode. To his credit, he called me from his friends last night and said he was very sorry. We talked for a long time and he doesn't know why he was acting that way or what got into him. All was forgiven.
Tonight, he was behaving similarly. Not to the same degree, but definitely the symptoms were still rearing their ugly head. He was again argumentative and in a bad mood. Granted, he was frustrated about some things going on with his Chevelle, but again, he was over reacting. He had trouble communicating and there were pauses during his sentences where it seemed he was searching his mind for something. There are some things coming up tomorrow and this weekend that he needed to plan for and I was asking him questions and he could not even think to make a decision to save his life. There were several things that should have been easy decisions that he just could not make his mind about, and it was clear he just could not think through them. I had to cancel his senior picture shoot, because that was clearly overwhelming him.
All this to say that I *feel* like the drastic change in the trajectory of his health is likely due to the concussion last Thursday (almost a week ago now), but I don't have any way of knowing, which is my worst frustration. Just when he was having this amazing forward momentum in his health like NEVER before, this happens and I wonder if all the progress he made with Lyme-N will be overshadowed by concussion symptoms and how long this will last. Feeling defeated.