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SO 2 saturdays ago the kids played in the yard and got some TIIIINY red bites, chiggers Im assuming, we had them soak in the bath. The next morning the older 2 told me addison had a huge bug bite, she showed me this huge golfball size LUMP, its round like a ball so Im like hm usually bug bites spread not pop out. We iced it, benadryl, soaked in salt water. Nothing was changing the size at all, she had a fever the following day, but it was really mild, like 100.2 or something, she was really whiney so Tuesday morning I took her in to the dr who said she thought it was a gangolian cyst or another kind that is from an injury, but that the placement and size was odd. So she sent us for an ultrasound even though she was sure it was nothing. It started to look smaller sometimes? The following tues (so this week) we had the US which seemed a little odd, the tech kept leaving and coming back and making small talk. IDK. I just was like whatever, its the end of the day, we're all tired. We get home (its about a 30 minute drive during that time of day (highway cuts through the path) and the phone is ringing, her ped says the radiologist called and that its not any kind of cyst they've seen because there is no fluid flow, no roots, and no injury. The ball is like an iceburg you see about a 3rd of whats under her skin, its popping inside her ankle joint when she bends, we could see it on the screen. It was pretty odd looking, and at the time I kept thinking that looks solid? Or solidish at least?? So anywho, we're seeing a surgeon, to figure out if an MRI is worth it, if we should biopsy or just go ahead and remove the entire mass. She very carefully avoided saying tumor. Which I appreciate. When you've dealt with the medical issues I have in the last year you can process things pretty quickly, and my mind was already there when she mentioned cancer, and quickly said that's not what she's saying it is, but that's why we need to get this figured out asap.... I'm not even a huge fan of this dr, so I REALLLLY hope she's wrong and its just a damn cyst... Even though what I saw wasn't anything I've seen easily drained so unless she wakes up with it gone, we are looking at some medical intervention which I really hate for her, she's at the stage Chlo was at that age with anxiety. :(
She woke up crying yesterday saying her thigh hurt and by bedtime was being mean and crying a lot (her response to pain) and said her hip hurt too (in the opposite leg) and has been about the same way all day. She's ok sometimes in spurts, which I can all too well understand. :(
So that's where we are right now. We go Monday afternoon to a different campus, I called to have the results faxed over and hopefully that's all done or they'll have to reschedule. I've never gotten in so quickly to a surgery consult other than with my ovary removal so yay I'm feeling pretty anxious in general and just trying to tell myself its probably just something simple.
She woke up crying yesterday saying her thigh hurt and by bedtime was being mean and crying a lot (her response to pain) and said her hip hurt too (in the opposite leg) and has been about the same way all day. She's ok sometimes in spurts, which I can all too well understand. :(
So that's where we are right now. We go Monday afternoon to a different campus, I called to have the results faxed over and hopefully that's all done or they'll have to reschedule. I've never gotten in so quickly to a surgery consult other than with my ovary removal so yay I'm feeling pretty anxious in general and just trying to tell myself its probably just something simple.