scheduling question

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  • May 23, 2009 at 7:42 pm
    6boys1girl
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    I’m trying to put together our schedule. A conflict has come up and I’m not totally sure how to deal with it.

    My youngest (2month old Jude) was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the beginning of May. He will be going in for chemo for 3 days every 3 weeks all thru our first term (we do 9 weeks) and thru part of our 2nd term. I will need to be with him while he’s at chemo since he still nurses. But will also have to leave my other 6 at home-either with Dad (until he gets a new job-he was laid off in Jan) or with friends. The 3 days will be fairly long-approx 9 hours away on the first two days and 6-7 hours on the 3rd day.

    So I was thinking of planning two different schedules-one for chemo weeks that only has the essentials and whatever they can do by themselves and another one for the non-chemo weeks that includes all the other stuff.

    Has anyone ever done something like this? If so, any hints, ideas, etc?

    Thanks, Rebecca

    May 23, 2009 at 8:36 pm
    fluteplayer
    Member

    Rebecca,

    I am sorry to hear about your son. My older daughter was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia in December 2004. I had not yet discovered the Charlotte Mason method at that time, but we did have hospital/clinic day schedules (just the basics) vs. non-clinic day schedules. We did have days that we didn’t even get to all the basics, especially when we had unplanned, emergency visits to the hospital. We had to remember that it was necessary to be flexible.

    I have to get off the computer for now, but if you would like to e-mail me privately so we could discuss more specifics, my address is Toni@Musgroves.net

    Toni

    May 24, 2009 at 2:14 am
    richpond
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    Oh Rebecca, I don’t have any good advice but I wanted you to know that I will be praying for you and your family.

    It might be good to keep in mind that taking a few months off of school while you are in the midst of all this isn’t a bad idea. I understand that it might be easier to have the children on a schedule or routine but maybe with the expectation of “coasting” through this year. Not setting high achievement goals but just goals for routine and spending quality time together.

    I will be lifting you up in prayer each night at 10:00 pm CST. Hope you feel the prayers of strength and encouragement and the peace that I will be praying God bestows on you.

    May God bless you,

    Shelly

    May 24, 2009 at 2:59 am
    Kelly Bond
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    So sorry to hear about your son…no other advice to offer, just heartfelt sympathy and prayers!

    May 24, 2009 at 5:48 pm
    Shanna
    Participant

    I will be praying for your whole family.

    If you are saying that you will have a week of chemo and then 2 weeks off. I would consider taking the full week off each chemo week. So you would have 2 weeks on and 1 week off. But, always being open to the option that you may have to take off from school completely during this season in your life. God knows and He will fill in any gaps.

    May 24, 2009 at 9:16 pm
    Esby
    Member

    I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

    I agree Shelly that perhaps you take the schoolwork easy for the coming months.

    My advice, though I haven’t been in this situation, would be to leave your children with some great books they would enjoy reading on their own and some good board games.

    When your children are at home with your DH, I would suggest to him to spend lots of time outdoors doing physical activities. Bike riding, playing catch, etc. with their dad might be the best schoolwork for awhile (and good for Dad too!).

    Take care,

    Esby

    May 25, 2009 at 1:42 am
    6boys1girl
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    Thank you all for the prayers. They are very much appreciated. It’s been a whirlwind since May 6 when we found out.

    Good reminders to take it easy and not worry (about school) too much. I do tend to push really hard to get things in. All the different options suggested make a lot of sense also. I really need to think and pray some more.

    God has been very gracious in putting some stuff in place before this all happened. First of all, leading me to SCM plan your own curriculum book. Second, I was already planning a kind of sabbatical year for my oldest two. They are almost ready for high school, so I let them choose most of their subjects and they will be doing them on their own. He also convinced me that the most important thing to work on for the 3rd and 1st graders is reading, writing and math. So glad that he has been so gracious in these ways.

    That said, your reminders are much appreciated as I do tend to go overboard.

    Thank you!

    Rebecca

    May 25, 2009 at 1:43 am
    6boys1girl
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