@ - WWYD re school attendence

[ijack]

DD1 has been sick and stayed home all week so far. She has a cold, but because of her premature lungs when she gets a cold she starts coughing a ton and her breathing gets super duper crappy. Tomorrow her class is going on a snowshoeing trip, but even if she's feeling better I'm not going to let her go because her breathing numbers are still pretty low. So my choices are to either send her to school and have her maybe spend the day with another class (I need to check with her teacher) or keep her home again.
WWYD? Check with her teacher to see if she can hang with another class or keep her home (with our nanny, she'll do plenty of reading and math)?

[sunterp]

I would check with the teacher to see if she can hang out with another class. If you have any concerns about her breathing at school keep her home. I am of no help but I do like to send my kids to school whenever possible just to keep them in that routine.

[ringstrue]

Dunno how your kid is but mine usually gets rowdier at home cuz she wants to dance to music and jump on beds or whatnot. Or she wants to talk my ear off and can get into coughing fits. So for my kid for the sake of keeping her calm and still and quiet I'd want to send her in.

[ijack]

She's in first grade.

[chedifuen]

I would keep her home

[downtoearth]

I would probably just keep her home, but pick up the homework she might have from this week and have her start on that at home with the nanny.

Too bad she's so sick, but I'm glad she's getting better.

Oh and do you have a pulse-ox meter at home? I would love one of those for DS#2 who also has every cold go directly to his lungs.

[ijack]

Feb 4, 2015 15:23:16 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

I would probably just keep her home, but pick up the homework she might have from this week and have her start on that at home with the nanny.

Too bad she's so sick, but I'm glad she's getting better.

Oh and do you have a pulse-ox meter at home? I would love one of those for DS#2 who also has every cold go directly to his lungs.

No, we use a peak flow meter to check how she's doing. She has a baseline number that she's usually at when she's healthy, but we mostly use it to make sure that when she does her treatments (neb, puffer, whatever) that she's improving after it. If she isn't improving then we know it's time to head to the hospital.
Oddly enough even when she's super sick her pulse ox never really drops - it's just her body has to work so hard to breathe that it effects everything else (like her weight gain). It's taken us a long time to figure this out!

[ijack]

Feb 4, 2015 15:31:27 GMT -5 @choco said:

Ditto, let her rest and keep her at home b/c of the breathing issues. Does she have a nebulizer/inhaler? Is it helping her any at all?

She has a daily inhaler, we're doing the neb every 4 hours, and she has a rescue inhaler that she uses once a day too. They are helping thank goodness, we just need to get rid of all the congestion she has.

[thejackpot]

Another vote to keep her home. It will probably help her to get a bit more rest.

[UMaineTeach]

I would just keep her home. Sure, you can ask that she not go out snowshoeing, but if she's not regularly in a different class (like they switch teachers for reading and reading teacher's class isn't going out), she's not going to get much out of the day that can't be made up with the rest that she's missed.