My Single Mom Life

I finally got some sleep after about 6 days of getting approximately only 5 hours of total sleep during those 6 days.
It was really awesome to catch up on my sleep finally.
I fell asleep this morning around 8am, and then slept the entire day away, and woke up around 3pm.
Yeah, the whole day was pretty much wasted, but at least my body decided that it had enough and let me sleep.
I'm really hoping that now that I've caught up, that I can get back to working, get back to doing the things I need to do.
When you aren't getting any sleep, your brain is in like a constant state of confusion, a fog, you can't think straight, so trying to blog, trying to write, just wasn't happening for me.
I'm really hopeful that things get back to some sort of normal with me so I can get stuff done.

Neither of the teens went to school today, they both woke up in massive pain this morning, so I couldn't make them go.
Sebastian woke up with a blinding migraine again.
I went in his room and woke him, his face immediately grimaced, he asked me to shut off the light, he put his hands over his eyes and head, I asked if it was bad, he said yes, so I got him a drink, his morning meds, and a couple of Tylenol, and sent him back to sleep.

Mark was going to try to go even though it's pointless for him to go because there's nothing for him to do at school, the teachers aren't giving him any work, even if they did, it wouldn't count, because he's taken his graduation test, he's done with school, so he sits there all day doing absolutely nothing but taking up space.

But that's not why I didn't send him.
Yesterday morning when he mowed the lawn, he pulled something in his middle back.
He complained about it all afternoon yesterday, I kept giving him Tylenol, rubbed some Cura-Heat on it, but this morning when I woke him up, he was crying the pain was so bad, bent over, tears falling, crying from the pain, and Mark never, ever cries, so I knew that it was bad and he wasn't faking how bad it was.
I had him take a hot shower, I rubbed on more Cura-Heat, gave him more Tylenol, and sent him back to bed.
When I got up this afternoon, I gave him some more Tylenol, more Cura-Heat, and am just trying to keep him from doing anything more to his back.

I need to get him in to see the doc about his back soon.
Scoliosis is genetic, it can be passed down parent to child, and boys can get it, too, even though girls seem to get diagnosed with it more often than boys do.
I'm not sure if he has it, but he does complain about lower back pain every few months or so, and sometimes it looks like his shoulders aren't level, an almost sure sign of scoliosis.
I absolutely hate to think that either of the teens may have it, everything I have been through because of it, years of pain, all of the treatments, the surgeries, I know that it is genetic, it would not be my fault if they end up with it, but I know I will blame myself if they do.
It wouldn't really be my fault, genetics are genetics, but I would feel responsible for it, so I need to have him checked again, and then again a year from now.
I have both of them checked at least once a year, and his last check was about 10 months ago, but with the pain he gets every so often, and now that he's pulling muscles, he needs to be seen again.
To help with his back and keep him from slouching (a very, very bad habit) when he plays video games, I make him sit with pillows behind his back on the mismatched discount dining room furniture chairs they use in the game room.
The chairs that went with my dining room table were cheap miserable things, fold up wooden slat chairs, no cushions at all, just absolutely miserable, so I bought some mismatched ones a few years ago at a store that was having a showroom sale.
I got each of the 4 chairs, none matching, for $10 each.
Hey, at least they were all the same color, not style, but same dark cherry color, and they all had seat cushions.
Before bed tonight, I'll give Mark some more Tylenol and slap on some more Cura-Heat, and hopefully by morning he'll be feeling well enough to go sit there at school all day even if he's not doing anything.
I really need to talk to the school and find out what can be done to stop wasting Mark's time, the teacher's time, and taxpayer money by making a kid sit there all day doing absolutely nothing at all.