I still remember one day BD24 woke up, and had no clue what happened to her neck. She said she could barely turn her head, and when she forced it she heard a pop, and everything hurt like hell. I could see the pain in the poor girl's face. She spent the day in hot baths and with a heating pad on the back of her neck. She didn't even want to eat...she said the pain was so bad that just the smell of food made her want to throw up. We still don't know what happened, but she was well enough the next day to go back to school. The next day she said it didn't hurt any more, but she still just couldn't turn her head as much (she could look up and down just fine). Whatever it was totally worked itself out in a few days and she hasn't had a repeat of it.

HHB...like BM...plays everything up! DH has had problems in the past with BM using the ER as her primary care and taking HHB in for every little sniffle and bump, and then handing him these big bills for half. Co-pay for a GP is like $20, but with the ER, there is first a deductible to be met. When HHB lived with us, she strained her ankle in color guard. Now, I have LOTS of experience with strained ankles, being in sports myself when I was in high school, being a personally trainer, and having a son in football. I took a look, and could tell it didn't need anything but a little ice, Advil, a wrap, and elevation. She was also told that strains could take a couple of weeks to heal completely. My word...the girl played the thing up for like 2 months! Every other day she would tell DH that she thought she needed to go to the ER to have it looked at...though, she would not take the Advil, and would not keep the wrap on it (it wasn't attractive).

Oh, and then the color guard captain messed up her knee. Next thing we know, HHB is complaining about her knee. She got this brace from somewhere...never figured out where, and wore it constantly for like 6 months (yeah, the wrap for the ankle was not attractive, and she is wearing this awful looking brace all the time). Funny thing was, she sometimes forgot which knee she was supposed to have hurt, and would limp wrong or put the brace on the wrong leg!

But every little thing is always a big production with her, and you know she hoped to get dear daddy to say she didn't have to go to school. He would make her go to school, and she would start this huge production that she had to come home. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I'm sorry, just saying "I don't feel well" and not being able to give any kind of details about what you mean about that means it is likely you aren't really sick! Do you have a headache, do you feel weak, does anything hurt, is your head stuffy...all those questions would just result in HHB saying "I don't know...I just don't feel good." Yeah...you are not sick!