When I came home from Texas- close to 2 weeks ago, Tate had a red rash on his cheek. In examining his rash... I noticed that his throat glands were very swollen. They were like big marbles. I took him into the doctor who suggested that it might be strep throat or possibly mono. We got him tested for both of those and the tests came back negative. Well paranoid mostly because of my Mom's lymphoma, I took Tate back to the doctor today. She reassured me that I am not making it up. She wants to put him on a round of antibiodics to see if his glands shrink back to normal. She also ordered bloodwork to make sure that it isn't anything serious. It most likely isn't that big of a deal but I'm the type of person that would rather get him checked just to know for sure. So, this afternoon I took Tate to the lab to get his blood tested. He was so good! I held him on my lap while the nurse drew his blood. He held perfectly still and made no signs whatsoever of being in pain. He was very curious as to what she was doing and wanted to watch the entire thing. Afterwards the nurse told me that she's never seen a more behaved kid in all the time she has ever worked in the lab. Bravo Tate. That's my boy!
That's too bad to hear! I really hope that it's nothing serious! Keep me posted eh? Love ya guys!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you took him back in. I hate it when you just don't feel quite right about how one of your kids is feeling/acting/looking. But Tate is certainly growing up. Savannah would die before we could get more than a drop of her blood. She has all of the shots that she needs to start school next year, and yet she still asks me almost every other day when she's going to have to get shots again. I am continually reassuring her that she won't be getting any more shots until after she starts school, and then she may get a flu shot. Crazy kid, more like drives me crazy. Maybe Tate could give her a few pointers.
ReplyDeleteI am catching up so you may say in another post but until I get there I really hope he is fine.
ReplyDeleteBelle has had her blood taken 3 times in the last month and it has never gone that smooth. She freaks but the one place we went is so much better with the kids than the other place so she did better there. Plus they gave her a dollar each time (I think out of the tech's money).