My 5 year old, Jack, is quite the "drama king". He's a happy, adventurous boy with little fear of anything but also has quite the overactive imagination. Today he happily went off to his first day of Sunday School at our new church...which involved following someone carrying a flag through the sanctuary, meeting people he'd never seen before and following them to a different building. No problem, he took it all in stride and had a great time.
He went to his brother's soccer game this afternoon and played hard with a friend, no sign of anything wrong. Then at dinner he was falling asleep, whiny, crying, not wanting to eat. He described in great detail that he wasn't hungry because there were "fireworks in his head and his brain got twisted and broke". I thought, "Wow, his excuses are getting pretty elaborate!" and laughed to myself.
An hour later I saw him sitting despondently in a chair on the verge of tears, with bright red cheeks and eyes that looked strange. Sure enough, he had a pretty good(high) fever, and a bad headache. I felt TERRIBLE...but how was I to know, after he acted just fine all day? I called the nurseline worried about meningitis after he complained about more pain in the back of his head when he put his chin to his chest but they aren't too worried, its not his neck that hurts.
I learned my lesson though. The next time he gets that descriptive about anything to do with his body, I will ask a lot of questions and not just think its his vivid imagination!
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