Nathan has warts. Poor kid, as if he hasn’t already been dealt a tough enough hand already, he has warts covering one of his knees, and he got one on the inside of his right wrist. Every two weeks, we go to a dermatologist and he coats them all with a liquid and covers them with adhesive strips. Then after six hours or so, blisters form and are supposed to heal and take the wart with them.

Except, it’s not quite working out that way. Two weeks ago the tiny wart on Nathan’s wrist was treated with the liquid, and when we took the bandage off, it had swelled up to about the size of a nickel. We kept thinking the blister would pop and heal, except instead, it hardened and turned into a wart. Apparently this can happen, a fact the doctor failed to mention as a possible side effect.

So today, I took all three kids to the dermatologist’s office to have Nathan’s wart removed. Fortunately for us, the head doctor’s wife likes to shop garage sales, and she has filled one corner of the office with Power Rangers and Transformers and a huge Fisher Price dollhouse and a play kitchen, so the kids had plenty to amuse themselves with as we waited for our appointment.

The doctor took one look at his wrist and said, it needs to be burned off. Nathan started to cry. The doctor said, I will numb your wrist first, you won’t feel a thing. Oh yeah, except the shot hurts. Nathan screamed so loud, they could hear him down the hall in the waiting room, through two closed doors. He screamed, and cried, while I tried to hold his arm still and felt my heart break.

The actual burning off of the wart? Gross, and SMOKY. It’s a little laser about the size of a thick gel pen, and you can see a little flame at the tip, and smoke comes pouring out. I didn’t let Nathan watch that part, in fact I cupped my hand and held it below his eyes so he couldn’t see anything but me. I kept him breathing, talked to him about laying on the beach relaxing, and it was over quickly. Now he’s got a nickel-sized raw spot on his wrist that we just have to keep clean and dry.

Unfortunately for him, if the warts on his knee don’t start responding better to the liquid treatment, those are going to have to be burned off too. There’s no danger in keeping them, except it’s summer and he’s wearing shorts, and kids are staring at his knee asking him what those bumps are, and it bothers him. But maybe not as much as painful shots all over his knee. Oh yeah, and tonight when Chris took the adhesive bandage off his knee, it ripped off the tops of some of the warts. There was only a little crying.

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I’ve been hesitating about whether or not to blog about Nathan here. But I just have to talk about him or I’m going to explode. Every day, I am scared that I am ruining him, that he is going to leave home at 18 and never look back. I just do not feel emotionally equipped to handle his way of constantly challenging every single thing I say. I can be talking to Chris or Ryan, and Nathan has to pipe up and argue that what I am saying is wrong in some way.

His final diagnosis from the Neuropsychiatrist is that he has a high i.q., especially in the areas of language and verbal reasoning. He tests high for ADHD, and has a Non Verbal Learning Disorder. A condition called Dysgraphia makes it hard for him to write, because his brain is working so quickly that his letters just end up all strung together. And math, oh, math. There is a probability that Nathan will NEVER be able to do more than basic addition and subtraction. He doesn’t comprehend story problems, or understand fact families (2+3=5, 3+2=5, 5-2=3, 5-3=2).

If we could afford it, we would look into some kind of program that offers Math Tutors. There’s a chain of places called “Score” that are successful, but the closest one to us is in Pennsylvania. They use computer software programs to gradually increase the difficulty of the math at the child’s own pace, and since Nathan loves using the computer, it would probably hold his attention more than just sitting and filling in worksheets. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they will open a center somewhere near us here.

It’s to the point now where I feel like I have to be the mean drill instructor, dictating every movement he makes all day long. When I ask him to do something that is even slightly difficult or doesn’t involve TV or video games, he rolls his eyes and says with a heavy sigh “awwww”. Like I’ve asked him to hold the world up on his shoulders instead of take out the trash or pick up his shoes.

I love him so much. It’s breaking my heart that he and I don’t get along, that I don’t feel like we can just sit and talk to each other. Even having “dates” with him where it’s just the two of us going to the video store or to the library don’t help. We have an appointment for July 27th to see the pediatrician, and at this point, I’m willing to deal with the side effects of ADHD medication if it will make the kind of change in him that I think it will. I don’t want to lose my son. I don’t want him to hate me. I want him to smile instead of looking sad all of the time. I want more photos where we look like this:

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