Dommie Update

So we went to the pediatrician on Friday (sorry I'm just now updating...until I get my new computer - hopefully tonight!! - I don't use the internet on the weekends....) and it was hard to get a good evaluation out of him.

First off, Dom didn't get a nap since I picked him up in the middle of nap time. Secondly, the room they put us in was the same room we were in about 6 weeks ago for Dom's 2 year appointment...where he got 3 shots. He remembered. As soon as he saw the room, he grabbed my neck in a death grib and started screaming at the top of his lungs. He was yelling, "No, no, no, no!". It broke my heart. I couldn't convince him that he wasn't getting any shots.

So it was a rough appointment. She came in and saw him limping with his shoes on. She tried applying pressure to his legs to see if there were any tender spots. He started screaming when she got to the tops of his thighs. We couldn't tell if this was saying he was in pain from the pressure...or if he remembered that he gets his shots there.

Then she checked his hip flexibility. She was rotating his hips to see if he had full range of motion. He did. She told me that there is a virus that shows up in kids with runny noses and congestion where fluid builds up on their ball and socket joint of their hips and they can't move them. But he had full range of motion in his hips so we could rule that out.

After applying pressure and checking his hips, we started walking around with shoes off. He did much better without any shoes on.

So we determined this:

1) Get him new shoes, ASAP. Just in case it's the shoes causing the problem (and those shoes were OLD so we needed to do this anyway).

2) Keep an eye on his leg and see if he starts showing any signs of pain, etc. from walking, running, climbing, instead of just limping without any signs of pain.

3) Apply pressure to the tops of his thighs and see if it really does hurt or if he was just remembering the shots.

4) Call the pediatrician on Monday and update them. We may need to do an x-ray.

So Dommie and I left (with a St. Patrick's Day sticker) and headed straight to the Galleria. We went to Laurie's Shoes and got Dom some new SUPER SHOES! as we like to call them.

We kept a close eye on him all weekend and I think the shoes did it. I don't know if his other shoes were too tight? They weren't hard to get on but maybe they were still squishing his feet somehow. Maybe too narrow? Dom has a wide foot. I don't know, but it's an easy fix and I'll take it!

I think that was all we needed to do. I applied pressure on his thighs and he didn't scream. Well he did scream, but it was screaming with laughter, followed by a "Mama, that TICKLES!". So I'm guessing no fracture. :)

I feel kind of silly going in, but I'm glad we did. I would have felt horrible if he had a little fracture in his leg!

Oh and just to mention, the doctor told me that there is a thing called a "toddler's fracture" where they fracture a bone in their leg and don't act like it hurts at all. The only noticeable thing is: they limp. They do, however, respond to pressure being applied. But otherwise they don't act like there is anything wrong. So Nick was right on that one. I told him we didn't need to go in because he didn't act like anything hurt, but apparently that doesn't mean anything.

Either way though, my baby boy is doing better! Thank goodness!