[Cree]

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My son was diagnosed 2 years ago with Hashimoto’s. He is now a High School Junior and his complications from the disease are affecting his attendance. He was a 4.0 plus student for 2 years even with missing school. I’m having a rough time with his school not wanting to put him on a 504 plan. He misses 2 months last semester and the modified plan he was on didn’t work. Teachers didn’t give him all the necessary work and his AP language teacher required him to show up to get credit. He received his first F’s last semester from all classes.
He went back to school this semester for a few weeks and then caught a bad bug that doctors thought was strep, then pneumonia, then upper respiratory infection. He’s been out for 5 weeks. We have Kaiser in Northen California and he is only seeing a primary at this point.

His teachers still haven’t given him homework and suggested him to go on home and hospital but if he does all the classes he’s taking to gradate are not offered.

Need some help or guidance from anyone who has been in this situation.

[Kimberly]

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Hello – Hopefully, someone who has been in a similar situation will see this and respond. In the meantime, this bulletin was written about Graves’, but might still be of interest:

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http://gdatf.org/about/about-graves-disease/patient-education/students-graves/

Hopefully, if you continue to be the “squeaky wheel”, you can get an administrator to take an interest in your son’s case. He is obviously someone very bright who has had a lot of back luck in terms of health.

Some primary care docs are very comfortable treating Hashi’s, but others are not. If your son’s levels have been fluctuating, it would certainly be worth trying to get an evaluation from an endocrinologist.

Wishing you and your son all the best.

[Cree]

#1184301

Thank you Kimberly. The link helped a lot and I’m forwarding it on to the school administration so they can get some information. Talking to people about a disease they’ve never heard of is sometimes like talking to a walk.

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