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Interesting! Yes, my elderly mom spent most of her life avoiding doctors and hospitals at all costs and now has been going into the ER via ambulance regularly over the last few months since moving into an independent living place largely for no critical health reasons. She's also obsessed with her bowel movements (or lack of). It's been hard to understand WHY after a lifetime of avoiding hospitals she's going in so often and for no real reasons besides old age and aches and pains. I'm wondering if it's because she's around so many other elderly folks now who obsess over their health or if she has early stage dementia (guessing at this because she's in her 80s so why wouldn't she?) which I hadn't linked to this until this forum. I thought the medical bills would scare her, but she's back in the hospital again after spending most of Nov and Dec back and forth going into hospitals and rehab. Again, largely for nothing other than physical therapy needs.
Anonymous wrote:I just answered a second ago but I also wanted to say that my mom experienced major major health anxiety last year and we went to the ER like 4 times. It was head, it was nerve pain, it was stomach pain, it was heart palpitations, etc.....she had several work ups and ended up admitted for severe nerve pain but the resident doc pulled me aside and said that he suspected dementia, and deep anxiety which manifests physically.
She was indeed diagnosed with stage 3/4 alzheimers right after. Once she started antidepressants and memantine her anxiety went way down. But until then she was like your dad--every day was the edge of a precipice for her and if another resident had something, she had it too, etc....
OP here. Thanks for the feedback! No, my kid wasn't in the gifted pool but had high scores on MAP reading, is above reading level, and good grades so as they explained it to me - it's a combination of meeting the county criteria and having the teacher recommend your child for the program. Sounds like a good program from what I learned from the school.
PPA primarily practices in MD and plays at the MD Soccerplex at that levels on the weekends. Also, the other girls on the teams are almost always from MD inner burbs or NW DC, so I suggest you go with a club closer to where you live. Practices twice a week are sometimes as early as 4:30pm or end as late as 8pm on week nights, so I think with traffic this could be a haul for your family. My 2 cents. I don't know exactly where you live in VA or what your family situation is, but with rush hour it can be tough commuting from anywhere.