L woke me up a few minutes after 5in the morning, "Mom, please come down to the kitchen."
Sigh... I am very suspicious. Right away, I knew he was "sick" and, in my heart of hearts, I thought he was acting. But I followed him down and discovered the mess.
He had vomitted everywhere - disgusting, right? But I am suspicious. It didn't seem like the same food he'd been eating last night... Still, what was I going to do? Taste it? No, I cleaned it up and was kind and loving to L - but not effusive. I was also disgusted by it. I showered afterward. (Even as one has doubts... cleaning up vomit is disgusting even to think about. I bet reading about it is awful too.)
Anyway, about an hour later: L is back in bed (zzzz) - and I have just started my work day... Have I mentioned how sleep deprived I've been?
Anyway, I turn on the laptop that L uses to write a few e-mails to students. I had decided that I'd cancel office hours, so that I could leave later, because L was sick. On the main screen of google chrome there's a tab that says recently viewed sites (or something to that effect). I said, "huh..." I put my cursor on it and among the recently viewed sites were two that had titles like this, "How to fake sick to stay home from school. With photos."
Sigh... sigh sigh sigh. I do love that kid.
It is tough being a mother.
P.S. The vomit?? I suspect a can of soup. And, what also made me a little suspicious is that the "mess" was in the perfect spot - the kitchen floor - no dirty walls, no dirty cabinets,no dirty rugs.
PPS Too tired to write about how I dealt with it. Sigh
