confused.....

i am confused. i took lacee to the doc today for stomach pain. i figured it wasnt anything, but since the flu, strep throat, and stomach virus are running crazy here, (enough so that school was cancelled friday) i figured it was better to be safe than sorry. sure enough, it turns out she is ok. probably something she has ate that had hidden wheat in it. that and we are about to have another woman in the house. any day now.
but thats not what i am confused about. for about 2 or 3 school years now, but gradually getting worse, i have noticed that lacee is spacey. haha cute rhyme. but seriously, she has to be reminded constantly of the littlest things. tie your shoes, brush your teeth. things she has been doing all her life. she forgets her pencil for homework. she forgets her homework. she forgets to bring the text book that goes with the homework. she forgets her progress reports. she forgets her lunch. she forgets why she walked in the room. she forgets she was tieing her shoes, spaces out in the middle of the task. you get the idea. at first i thought it wasnt as bad as i thought, we moms can be harder on our own kids than we are on others.
but last sunday night she spent the night with chrissy. chrissy has been my best friend since we were 16-17 yrs old. her son is my "nephew" and my kids call her "aunt chrissy". we love each others children and want only the best for them. monday morning while getting the kids ready for school, she got a small taste of spacey lacee. she could see exactly what i see.
so today while at the doc i mentioned the spaceyness to her and asked about add meds. i am thinking that a small dose of attention helping meds might be good for lacee. i was given a paper for me to fill out and a paper for a teacher to fill out.
i texted one of her teachers, the one that has her the most, to let her know i was sending the paper tomorrow and if she could please fill it out and send it back to me or the doc. asked her if she thought it might help. she said lacee had no trouble focusing at school, she is one of the best in the class!! i explained to her what i see at home, and that i was schocked, happily, that lacee wasnt struggling at school.
so i guess i will go ahead and send the paperwok to the teacher, then meet with the doc next week with the answers of mine and the teachers papers. doc said they would also test her hearing, vision, and do either an eeg or ekg, not sure which she said.
i dont want to medicate my child if its not needed, but as middle school approaches closer and closer, i want to do everything to help her be the best lacee she can be.