When ASD children get sick!! It’s a disaster zone!!

Well today has not turned out as I had expected. I was first woken at 1am by Master 10. He couldn’t sleep and didn’t feel well. So up I got and set him up in the lounge room, much cooler than his bedroom and soon enough he feel back to sleep.

Thinking it was just one of those things I went back to bed. I was up again at 4am, which is when I get up most mornings. I left at 5am to run my partner to work, just around the corner, leaving Miss 12 to watch the house full of sleeping children. I was gone for no more than 10 minutes.

When I came home, disaster had struck. Poor Master 5 had been sick, everywhere!! The floor the bed the bathroom! The rest of the kids were all awake and none of them were looking good. High temps all round and none of them wanted breakfast.

My day has become very interesting. You see it wouldn’t be such a problem if they were able to tell me how they were feeling, but all my ASD children can not communicate under stress. So as soon as they get sick they just stop talking, or they make no sense.

Master 10 and Master 7 don’t speak at all. Miss 3 is not much better, she has spent the morning stuck to me like a bumper sticker and while she is yet to be physically sick, I can see it coming. Master 5 is able to talk however all he can say is I feel bad, which doesn’t actually help me figure out exactly what is wrong.

So after a complete clean up of the disaster zones, I now have my five youngest children spread out across the house quietly laying down. Some are asleep some are watching T.V. They are all in possession of a bucket, ready just in case. Let’s face it, it’s just a matter of time!

My next problem is that we just have to wait it out. There will be no nurofen or panadol. I’m sure this happens with non ASD children as well, but mine will not take it. I have tried every flavour and every brand. I have even tried to hide it in drinks and food but to no avail. So I do nothing.

Miss 12 as usual is not sick at all. She seems to have some sort of super power for avoiding these bugs that go around. All the others get sick and she is still healthy as anything. So she took herself to school. So with my partner at work and my helper girl at school I am left to play nurse and run from one room to the next.

I would rather they all picked a couch and stayed in one place so I could better assist each of them but when they are sick they become completely unmanageable all together. If someone makes to much noise or if one looks at the other the wrong way, it leads to total and utter chaos. Once I have one in meltdown mode the others seem to follow. It is a chain reaction and I plan on avoiding it at any cost today.

So here I am with Master 5 passed out beside me. I have cleaned up disaster number 4 for the morning and it is looking like it is going to be a very long day!

Hopefully everyone else is fairing better then we are.

Thanks for reading and letting me vent!!

@mumofmany.