Kids, honestly .. could they cause any more stress if they tried. I really wish i had of done my medical degree and became a Dr of all trades, i wouldn't want to work as a Dr, i would just like to have the knowledge to diagnose and treat my own kids. Something i have not blogged about, or mentioned to anyone barring very close friends is Heaths mysterious lump in his neck, we found it in May and of course made the mistake of googling it and self diagnosing it as Leukemia and many other things. A visit to the Dr's made us even more panicked as we were sent for blood test after blood test when there showed some differences in those results. After being shuffled from here to there, we went to the Royal Children's Hospital and wow, WOW .. those guys are great, the volunteers, the doctors, EVERYBODY .. i can't sing their praises enough. From the minute we stepped into the Dr's room we knew we were in the very best place to get this business sorted. This Dr was very thorough in his examination and assured us that this lump was nothing more than a swollen lymph node and that the blood tests and lack of other symptoms were verifying that this was nothing more than a virus or several viruses.
So off we went .. relieved, happy and looking forward to some sleep. Until of course, we noticed there was night sweats, complete exhaustion, weight loss and bruises galore .. so back to the hospital we go and are sent for more blood tests, which came back as complete reassurance that those symptoms were just from a virus, and there was absolutely no leukemia, no cancers, everything big and nasty has been tested for and ruled out. So, once again, relief, joy and .. SLEEP!!! .. until of course last night, when seeing the hospital Dr for a high temp and terrible cough the Dr says .. "OH GOSH, there's a very large lump there" and i calmly reply "Yes, he's being seen at the Royal Children's for that, it's just a virus" .. "Hmm, Okay" ..
"HMMMM OKAY?????" .. seriously, is THAT what your going to say to me??? To ME?!?! Don't you have ANY idea how much I'm going to go home and analyse that "HMMMM OKAY??" .. do you have NO idea that in my panicking head I'm going to change that "HMM OKAY" into a "Hmmm, are you SURE about that, i mean, it IS a very big lump and i noticed it straight away, perhaps you should go home and take a long hard look at the test results you have stored in your little file and google each and every word, once again, until you are in another state of panic" ..
See, now you understand why a medical degree would do me good .. whats that saying about teaching old dogs tricks .. maybe it's not too late for me to go to school .. what is it, a few years?? ..
2 comments:
Wow, totally hear u on that mate. It is always worst case scenario isnt it when it comes to your babies.. l panic too. (But with good reason to as in the past l did have a worst case scenario and like you l agree the RCH staff are brilliant u know u are in good hands there.:)
I think the problem with Public hospitals are the Registrars and Students they stress you out, when working with kiddies they really should be with a qualified Paediatrician to set the parents at ease, i understand they have to learn but it is such a stressful time for a child when thye are being poked n prodded. Not to mention how stressed the Mother Hen gets. Hope he is on the mend mate. Is his lump painful at all l had an infected Lymph node in my neck my neck blew up though and it really was quite sore.. Stay happy mumma he will be fine u have taken him to the best of the best and they are right onto these things..
Oh and stay away from Google self diagnosing, when l had my infected lymph node l was sure l had Hodgkins Disease so now l stay away.. lol xox
Hey Nillesy, your blogging, yay!! Nah, his lump isn't painfull at all. And yes, i will try my hardest to stay away from Google as it only scares me more. It's just such a roller coaster with kids, every time i leave the RCH i feel relieved and reassured, then a week or so later he sneezes, or has a runny nose and i go into "what if" mode .. something all us mummies are guilty of im sure :-)
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