I emailed ds teacher, didn’t think he would reply being the weekend but he emailed back asked me to get ds a test as a positive result would help them to close the class bubble etc.
He said ds needs to stay off school regardless etc, i said i know and sent him test and trace email to say ds can go back to school Tuesday 29th.
I get why school asked for ds to have a test, but ds will not have a test. I do mean that aswell, I can’t cut his fingers / toes / hair, he doesn’t let me wash his hair / hates me brushing his hair / struggle to do his teeth although he’s better with the teeth now that’s only taken 7 years of twice a day for him to accept it!
Everything is a total nightmare, I have to do it all when he’s asleep and wash his hair by squeezing water off the flannel onto his head when he’s in the bath and his head is covered in cradle cap because the shampoo doesn’t get properly rinsed and I can’t get the cradle cap out etc. His hair is long and curly it’s near his shoulders! Personal care is a real struggle, I can only do my best! Shit like that keeps me awake at night worrying about him looking scruffy and people judging us.
So no ds will not be having a test!
He’s too strong to pin down and it’s too traumatic, I pinned him and swabbed him last august when he had a cough (a few days before they went back to school and I knew school would not let him in with a hacking cough) so I ordered a home test and pinned him and I’ll never do it again, it made his nose bleed he went that mad and he didn’t come near me for days, everytime I went anywhere close to him he was flinching from me. He kept waking up crying for weeks and he stills talks about it now, he’s terrified of people in masks and think they are going to swab him, it genuinely traumatised him.
Ds has no symptoms anyway but even if he had I wouldn’t test him.