The only hiccup was last week during spring break, he came down very suddenly with an absolutely horrible stomach virus. I have never seen someone be so sick in my life ( as far as vomiting) and neither of us could remember the last time he actually vomited~ it's been years and that's just not something that ever happens to him. Within 3 hours of the symptoms onset, I had to take him to the ER. He was dry-heaving non-stop, was dizzy and dehydrated-just that fast. My husband had to help him get to the car, he was so dizzy. ER tested him for bacterias and they all came back negative. They gave him some anti-nausea meds and two bags of IV fluids. The following day he slept all day long and took a couple anti-nausea meds. He had the worst headache of his life and literally could not even move it hurt so much. Probably a side effect of the dehydration and the nausea meds: it's on the label.
I am pretty sure Colby's gluten tolerance has run out. He had a meltdown today and has been acting pretty hyper and was not able to process information I give him. He wanted to earn money, so I had him do some chores today: mow the lawn, rake it up and wash my car. I tried to be helpful and told him things to do to make it go faster and easier for all jobs and what my expectations were. None of that information made it into his brain. Or if it did, the brain totally twisted the meaning until it meant something else entirely and was not even close to what I said. Granted, he had a friend over and that is a distraction, but he was very obnoxious, argumentative and high strung. Exactly how he gets with gluten.
After the chores were done, I went out with him to examine his work and had some critiques. My main critique was that he did not listen to the few important parts of the instructions I had. He worked hard and I appreciated his efforts and time spent, but he ignored certain instructions completely. He interrupted, raised his voice and got angry. He was not really even addressing the issues I was raising and it escalated to the point that he just started crying and melted down.
I feel terrible~ I never wanted that to happen, but I am convinced it was due to huge, daily doses of gluten since he has gone off his diet. I'm so bummed... it's going to be nearly impossible to get him back on a GF diet. We still cannot find a good GF 'wrap' that doesn't crumble at the first touch. He eats a wrap at lunch every day at school and loves them. It was so nice for the first time in 20 years to not have to pack a lunch in the morning.... but now, I don't know what to do. Feeling super bummed out.
Otherwise, physically and in school he is doing well. He struggles in math and has had some back pain, I think due to his old injury snow-sledding when he broke his leg about 5 years ago. I took him in to our LMT last week, so we'll see if that helps.