This week in Mommyland....

The last few days have been a little stressful in Mommyland. On Tuesday, when I got Syd home from school, I noticed that when I sat her down she wouldn't move and started crying. At first I thought she was just cranky or tired but then I noticed that her left upper leg and knee area was swollen and she wouldn't put any weight on it. Now this happened once before about 6 months ago when she was learning to walk and we never did figure out what happened but the doctor said it was probably an injury (we didn't know of any) or post virus swelling (she had been sick). So for it to happen again on the same leg was worrisome to say the least. (I should also mention that on her left leg she has a large hemangioma birthmark which we have seen several doctors about already.) So we called our pediatrician and he said to give it the night and then come in the next day if the swelling hadn't gone down. So we ended up taking her to the doctor yesterday and he didn't know what was going on so he made a few calls and then set up for her to have some bloodwork done (not fun at all!). He referred us to an orthopedic doctor (which we've seen before) so that's where we were this morning. She had to get x-rays (no fun again!) and he gave us the results of the blood tests. So we ended up ruling out a few things but we still have no answers so we are set up to see a pediatric surgeon at the end of the month and go from there. The good news is that her leg is better today and she is walking normal again but having no reason/cause for the swelling in the first place is frustrating! So needless to say, the last few days have been crazy and stressful around here. I guess all we can do now is wait.