recovering

Thanks for all your support, friends. Henry is feeling better today. This is the first day since April 28 that I didn't give him any ibuprofen. Yesterday at 1 pm his temperature was 103.8!! I called the pediatrician and they told me to wait 24 more hours. I was getting pretty fed up with that advice, but I guess it was correct this time, because today his fever is finally gone.

His fever is down but he is still tired and coughs a lot. He will be home all week, except when we go in to school Thursday for his IEP for next year.

Because he is feeling a little better he is being a little feisty. He has a new retort that I haven't quite figured out: "I said that before you did!" Like, I told him to be nice to his brother and he said "I said that before you did mommy!" (It seems related to "I already was nice to him yesterday.")

At the hospital, after the physicians finished a procedure; putting in the IV or taking the x-ray, they always told him what a good job he did. He would argue with them: "I did not do a good job! No I didn't!" (And truly, I didn't think he did a very good job- was not very cooperative. But since one nurse warned him not to bite her, I guess they get some pretty wild kids. I don't think Henry would have considered biting. He did a good job using his words.)

Also, I thought this was cute: the day after our emergency room visit, Henry said to me "that blood test hurt me. They used a sharp thing. You want me to tell you what that sharp thing is called?"

I told him it was called a needle.

Later that day my mom said that he told her about the blood test: "they used a needle."

Any thoughts on the Time Magazine autism cover story? I think it seems like a pretty good summary of issues, although too brief. I wish I could have read that when Henry was first diagnosed. It's informative but not hysterical like some of the articles were a few years ago.

They should do a story on autism blogs- and fly us all to New York for that retreat I've been wanting to have...

PS- re: the construction worker thing: Henry has been on that kick for a little while, but the funnier thing is that he actually pronounces it "destruction worker."