Older cast kids and anxiety/depression?

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Sorry to anyone who is on the FB too, but I'm posting this again here.Do any families of older cast kids out there with this issue: Grace hasn't been herself in almost a week. Thought it was bowels, but nope, that's

resolved, she's just been laying around in a funk. No fever, no symptoms really of being sick other than puking once Thursday night. She's been sleeping in late yesterday and today and took a good nap yesterday. She didn't get up until 10 this morning, so I didn't push for a nap today. I'm worried she's depressed about her cast coming up and I don't know what to do about it. All this came on a day or so after we received her cast date. Cast day isn't until 2/27. Help? Advice? She also isn't eating much. She's been drinking, and says she's hungry, but when we put food in front of her she says she feels like she's going to puke.Thanks,JaneGrace, 5 1/2 yrs, moderate omphalocele fully repaired, Congenital scoliosis with hemi-vert. Hemi removed 9/09 followed by series of casts and bracing. Been on a cast/brace break since 9/11. Scheduled to go back into a cast on 2/27.