Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Return-to-work Eve

Only one more week left of summer break for me - waaahhh! I have been reassigned to a different school this year. I am hopeful that it will be a nice change. I just hope my new principal will understand that sometimes I have to leave suddenly to care for Tom.

Tom is scheduled to return to work next Monday (same as me). I am seriously worried that this will not happen. He has been having dizzy spells - they started about a week and a half ago. They occur daily between 12 - 2. We thought it may be related to not eating, but he had a spell immediately after lunch yesterday. He gets very dizzy, has trouble walking, sees floaters, feels better, and falls asleep soonafter. It seems like a mini-seizure. What makes me think so is the fact that he gets sooo sleepy afterward.

Emotionally he's so ready to get back to work, but he's worried about these dizzy spells. He's all pumped - going and buying new shoes for the office, making a carpool plan with me -but then he has a setback. It's like clockwork - something always seems happens that deters him. I feel so sorry for him. It's like telling a young child that he's going to get a puppy, buying the necessary items, making a plan to care for this pup, and then being told that he can't have the puppy just yet - it's going to stay at the kennel until he is better prepared to take care of it, even though he feels he is capable.

Aaaarrrrggghhh! So frustrating! Let's see what the neurologist has to say on Thursday. I always go to his neurologist appts so that I can tell the neurologist everything that's happening with Tom. Tom tends to leave out things - deliberately or not? I don't know.

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