Daddy's little trooper

The "mump" saga continues...

We took Sofia to see a ENT doctor the other day, he took one look at her and said that the swelling under her jaw on the left side is definitely not mumps, but rather an infected lymph node. He prescribed antibiotics right away. We gave her the meds for a few days and had one follow up appointment with him. Then, yesterday afternoon, I took her to another follow up and the doctor said, "we have no choice, we must drain it."

So, daddy's little trooper had surgery this morning--minor, to be sure, but she was given an IV, a general anesthetic and the doc drained 5 cc's of "stuff" from her "mump". She's fine now, she's sitting on the couch here at home watching a movie and the procedure happened about five hours ago.

She'll need to go back and see him in a few days to change the packing and dressing and such, but she's already been given the go ahead to go to school tomorrow...and more importantly of course, go horseback riding.

Les oreillons

Even someone with even modest French ability might think that they recognize the title of this post. But you'd probably be wrong. Les oreilles means "the ears." But les oreillons is something entirely different.

Sofia started complaining over the weekend about her jaw on the left side. Stefanie and I didn't think much of it, until she lifted her chin and we noticed that she was a bit swollen on that side. Elevated temperature, swollen glands under the face...figure it out yet?

She is indeed vaccinated against "les oreillons" and this might still not be an actual case (the doctor definitely thinks it is), but we're going to keep her out of school for the remainder of the week just to be sure.

Oh, and we looked it up, to be a true case of "les oreillons" you don't have to have bilateral swelling (on both sides of the face), at this point the swelling is just unilateral, confined to her left side...and she's still going riding (of course).

So, some time off from school, lots of fluids, and lots of rest...and hopefully she'll kick this thing, mumps or no, and be back to school next week.

Glasses

Sofia has been complaining about her eyes recently--headaches and such. So....we had an appointment with the ophthalmologist today. No matter what I say though, she's excited that she now needs glasses. The doctor said that she has to wear them all the time and to enforce that rule, so we'll see. Yay for her!