My heart hurts for you. I can only imagine how devastated and worried you must be.
My advice is to
consult a physiatrist : (physiatry /fɨˈzaɪ.ətri/ or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A physician having completed training in this field is referred to as a physiatrist or rehab medicine specialist. Physiatrists specialize in restoring optimal function to people with injuries to the muscles, bones, tissues, and nervous system (such as stroke patients). My husband's experience with a neurologist was very, very unsatisfactory - as are many people's. If you want to see a neuro, be sure to find one that
specializes in brain injury. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think when you have a concussion that months later is still causing considerable impairment, a neuro is fairly worthless unless they specialize in rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is what a physiatrist DOES.
Read: the the online booklet
www.tbiguide.com This will help you understand what your son is dealing with. Mark is right to be concerned about the quality of sleep, for sure. Much of the tiredness can be explained from how hard the brain is working now to process information it used to process seemlessly in seconds.
Find others in your area: Go to a Brain Injury Support group near you (or at least call and talk to their coodinator). I was overwhelmed at month 4 with my husbands injury and the lack of help/direction from his neuro so I sought others in my area for referrals on doctors or facilities to go to - and, just as importantly, who NOT to go to. Check out
www.biausa.org for a meeting or contact person near you (Brain Injury Association of America)
Read: Older posts on this forum. There is MUCH good information. I'd especially recommend the post titled something like "Things you wish you'd known when you first got pcs". (Sorry, I don't know how to flag it or link it or bump it or whatever! lol It's worth hunting for though).
As far as school goes.... It's not what is important right now. Your son is dealing with a horrific injury. There IS hope and he WILL improve. It may take some time though. If he is a freshman in highschool, he may be better off with the tutor at home if he can even do the work. If it causes too much distress for hiim or makes him too sick - skip it. School, though important, is NOT the priority right now. His health and well-being are. There are many ways he can catch back up with his class after he is healed.
Praying for wisdom for you and healing for him....
Amy