The past few weeks have been a little bumpy around here. Hense the reason why I haven’t been able to write over the past few weeks…
Anyhow – this past two weeks has been a HUGE learning experience for me and an eye opener to the “Mommy intuition”. If you are a Mom you know exactly what I am talking about!
Quick intro to what’s going on with Sissy – Two weeks ago I noticed Sissy (now almost a year old!) was “clicking” her left scapula (the shoulder bone in the back). It was one of those things that I felt and set aside in my mind. Well, she did it again later that evening and again throughout the day on Thursday. Friday came around and she took a pretty good fall from a standing position. I picked up her as soon as she began to scream and the tears were rolling. I let her calm down and “inspected” her. I noticed that her left shoulder was a little funny looking. I knew she didn’t break her collar bone because she would’ve still been crying.
So, I called Hubs and he said to give it a little while….well a little bit passed and she wasn’t using her arm. I took her to the doctor and he said she’s able to pop her shoulder out of socket and that we needed to see a Orthopedic Surgeon.
So that Monday approached and I called Children’s Hospital Orthopedic Clinic who wanted to see her right away. I expected the best, but, planned for the worse. After 3 excruciating hours of waiting {Ya’ll really need to fix the wait… small children have a 15 minute attention span – but that’s for another day!) the doc looked at her x-ray and determined that she has what looks to be a small spur on her scapula. That we will need to follow up in two months to do another X-ray and make sure that it’s not CANCER.
{CANCER?!? What the hell?!? My heart stopped.}
He continued on to say that he doesn’t believe it is cancer, however, it is a possibility. If the next X-ray changes from the one today then we’d have to put her under and do a MRI on her to look into the problem a little further. He then said to bring her back if the shoulder seems to become painful.
Ok – here’s my problem. Why mention the “C” word in a case like this? Cause now this Momma is stressed out and wondering what the hell went wrong? I’m already wondering how she ended up with a spur in her shoulder and she’s only 11 months old. You should’ve kept the “C” word to yourself. If the next appointment something reassured you that it could in fact be the “C” word then say something to the parents and take some damn time to explain what’s going on would ya?!? Stop throwing around the “C” word and getting families in a uproar when there is no need to. The “C” word is a very powerful word now a days and you physicians need to stop using the damn word so loosely & prematurely.
So I will continue to NOT worry about the “C” word until it is necessary. I will update everyone when we get the new X-rays in November.
Has something like this happened to you? If so, I’d love to hear your story. You can email me at Marci@CincinnatiCoupons.net or leave a comment below.
