[lucyjoy]

I gotta love how creative my darling children are. Got a call from S's school this morning. He was in the nurses office-poor thing just kept sneezing. He told them we were renovating and old house, could he be allergic to something?

Well, we ran out of money a while ago and haven't even been working on the house so that was interesting. The other interesting thing is that my two kids here have this game they play-see who can make a fake sneeze sound real. Why do they do this? Cause they can, of course.

I had a hunch this was the case but thought I better go see. Kids eyes are fine, no water-nothing. Smirks at me when I ask him if he's playing the sneezing game. Funny, didn't sneeze once while I was there. Nurse told me as long as they talked to him there was no sneezing.

I gave him the choice to come home and go to bed or knock it off and go back to class. Guess he's cured cause no one called me back to get him.

[Lorraine123]

DD can do fake hiccups that are very real sounding. We can be out somewhere and she is hiccuping and I tell her to cut it out. People have actually told me that I expect too much to think that she can quit hiccupping on command. Interesting how she quits though.

[Barksum]

Whoa! You should patent your cure and become a bagillionaire! LOL Hooray for Dr. Mom!!

[AmyAnne]

Mine used to have fake coughing fits. We should call the producers of ER or Gray's Anatomy and see if they need extras for the hospital scenes!!!!!!

[ajjhmf]

Yep, I've got fake coughers, sneezers and hiccuppers here. Heck, M will even fake snore, lol.

J has reflux issues and when he fake hiccups for too long he gives them to himself for real. Gotta love those natural consequences.

[athikers]

My refluxer is also a hiccupper... still too young to fake it though! How frustrated, and annoying.

[zebramom]

Lucy, he really just wanted to see you for your birthday but forgot to use his words.

[AmyAnne]

Mine also fake snores, fake sleep-talks and fake falls out of bed. Often these things all happen the same night. Usually when we're in hotels.

[momraine]

I have one who fake falls all the time, out of bed, out of chairs, etc. He also does the throwing up on purpose and somehow is able to now fake diarreah. I have not figured it out. He seems to get it during school only, for a while it was at the same time every afternoon and he admitted to faking it. This week it was during a spelling pretest, and he was gone long enough to miss the pretest and came back at the end and then pulled out the answers and copied them down so he could turn in his paper with everyone else. He got caught and in trouble, but then because the aid saw the diareah (he made her come in a look) he did not get into any real trouble, just warned. I know I sound like a bad mom, but I am sure he did it on purpose, he has cheated on spelling tests before using the same type of pulling out the paper. He also is very much a con artist. I just can't figure out how he faked the diarreah in the toilet. I need to wait till he is in a bragging mood and get it out of him. We had one throwing up setback. Dad talked to dd all through dinner, and ds kept trying to get his attention. Since dad had a long talk with him right before dinner and had not talked to dd in a few days (because after surgery she only wanted mom) he kept talking to her so ds threw up. Today he was fine. So hopefully it was just a temporary setback, he had not done that since back in November! It used to be a pretty much daily thing. I took him off the prozac a couple weeks ago so I am hoping it's not that.

[mrsred]

The trouble with these fakers is that every once in awhile they are not faking. My 8 yr old has long used the belly ache to get out of things he didn't want to do. I don't know how many calls I got last year from the school nurse saying he had a belly ache. I fell for it the first time, but when he was lively and wanting to play the moment we got home I learned real fast. He gets belly aches when he has a larger writing assignment, he gets belly aches when he is supposed to clean his room, and when he has to do homework.
So, this morning, when we were at occupational therapy and he began to complain of his belly aching, I just assumed it was due to the fact that his therapist was making him do some writing and fine motor things rather than the large motor stuff he loves.
Yep, that is what I thought. Till we left there, and while I was still trying to wind my way out of the parking garage I heard what sounded like a gallon of water dumping in the back seat. Lovely. And we live 45 minutes from the medical center where he gets OT. Luckily a good friend of mine that lives near there was home so I could swing by her house. He showered and put on some clothes her son had outgrown while she and I did our best to clean out the smelly van. Darn these fakers. You just never know when to believe them.
And now I am feeling the same way. And I am not faking either.

[AmyAnne]

You're right MrsRed, it's SO HARD to know when to believe them.

Mine used to willfully vomit and pee the bed as well