Leo's daycare called me yesterday afternoon to report that he arrived from his other school with a nasty (my word, not theirs) looking scrape, a rug burn, perhaps? It's on his chest. The only reason they noticed it (it's in a place covered by his shirt) is that he was scratching and rubbing it.
I'm not trying to be melodramatic. It's really ugly. It's about the size of Leo's palm and it is a raw, red abrasion. There was no mention of it in Leo's communication book (from the other school). Considering the school nurse there has been known to write me about Leo having a hang nail (I'm not kidding), I figured if they saw him so much as stumble, there would have been notation about it. Nothing in the book.
Which led us to a game of 20 questions last night. There was Erin and I, sitting on the floor next to the bath tub, Leo standing (the water was stinging the abrasion, apparently).
Leo, did you fall? Did someone do that to you? Leo where did you get the owie?
Leo just kept saying "bee," which is his word for pain (after being stung by two bees last summer). He also said "hot" which is troubling, because it does look a bit like a burn, but how in the heck would he have been burned without anyone seeing?
Of course my first call this morning was to the other school. I spoke at length with the nurse. She agreed that it's not a pretty scrape, checked with all of Leo's therapists and teachers and no one knows how it happened.
It just breaks my heart, to not be able to communicate with Leo about this. To know that he was hurt, and to not know how it happened.
Damn you, speech delay.
2 comments:
This is Joyce. Oh I know how hard this is. We are used to doing the questions with Sarah too. Sometimes I just want to cry because I believe it must be frustrating for them too. Hopefully Leo will be able to give a few clues so they can piece it together at school today.
he might not even know what happened!
do you find that leo's skin is super-sensitive? sophie's is -- a scrape on our skin that would go away quickly somehow doesn't on hers, it's like it's thinner or something. the new rough surfacing in the pool scraped annabelle's knees and sophie's feet and AB's was better in a day; sophie's scabbed over and got really ugly.
so maybe it was something more minor than you're imagining? started off really small then got irritated (something else that seems to happen with sophie)?
sorry to Back Seat Mom!
in other news: i had never heard of the viorst book, though she's one of my favorites. i stuck it in my amazon cart immediately -- er, ran to my local independent bookstore and bought it. (forgive me, book gods.)
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