So some of you might know this story and if so please skip down to today's problem. For those of you who do not know the whole story, read on.
My son is 3 and a half year old. He's got asthma, weak lower bowel muscles (had difficulty pushing stool out at times and get constipated quite easily), is a small llittle guy (27lbs, been this weight for at least a year, maybe more) and is the sweetest kid you will ever meet (unless he tired, lol).
When Charlotte was 6 weeks old (she is 14 weeks old tomorrow), I noticed Darien had dropped (testicles into scrotom) and when this happened, he developed a large, bluish egg-like mass in his scrotum. I took him in with Charlotte to the 6 week well-check and he was examined as well as her. We were sent from the pediatrician's office directly to a urologist, with a speech of what the pedi thinks this was, twisted vas deferns (the string like thing that supplies blood to the testicles), and if this was it, he required immidiate sugery. Awesome! So off to the urologist we went, to hear this was one of two possibilities, and we went to an ultrasound (what was kind of like doing a circle, the pedi's office is beside the hospital where they did it, the urologist is up the street the opposite way) and had him examined. This whole time, I am not aloud to feed my child, offer him anything to drink, etc. as if he needs surgery he has to have stomach clear for 6 hours before. Awesome, again. So we get the results after 3 hours waiting (yes, 3 hours with a 3 year old and 6 week old... at least the then 4 year old was at Grandma's with Dad) and then go back to the urologist. He looks and says it's a cyst and should go away on it's own and wants u sback in 3 months. I'm thinking, phew!
A few days later this thing is causing him to not be able to release stool as it hurts too much, poor kid gives himself a ficsher pushing, and back to the hospital we go, ER this time as before this, I don't know why my baby boy is bleeding from the bottom. Thankfully nothing serious!
So 2 or 3 weeks go by and not only is this thing not going away, it's now larger and causing pain. I call again, we go back to the urologist again, and he orders another ultrasound. We wait 2-3 more weeks. Now the radiologist says this is a hernia! Um, ok... now what? We go back to the urologist again about a week later. He says he does not deal with this and we have to go to CHEO. (Children's hospital.) He says it requires surgery but not the kind he does. And, while there, realizes he does not like the progress the peale build-up of smegma is coming out (from him not letting us tough his penis for so long as it hurts), and removed it... by RETRACTING HIS FORESKIN forcefully! My kid screamed bloody murder and turned blue in the face from it. HATED that, I cried watching him. He bawled everytime he peed for the next two days.
So we wait ANOTHER 3 weeks and during this time, he's getting worse, having nights it hurts to pee, having nights he can't stop peeing, some nights he can`t sleep from being in pain, some days he can`t play from the pain, heck he even sat out on his sister`s 5th birthday party games because of it and didn`t eat her cake! Now tell me that`s not serious! I also had my doctor take a look and he says it looks more like both a hernia and cyst overlapping. He also sent a refferal to surgury.
So fast forward to today. We make the almost two hour drive to CHEO and first is his hearing test (routine due to speech therapy and some issues we`ve had) and is within normal range. Ok, cool, next appointment after lunch. So we go in and we see a med student. We tell him the whole story, he examines him, rights down some stuff and gets the surgen. Well this lady is maybe 50 and thinks she know it all. Hardly has anything to say to me, she`s more teaching this med student then talking to us. And talks all medical to us when she does. Basically says he does not need surgery, this will go away on it`s own but could take a year and THEN if it does not, they will operate! Seriously! Oh, and according her her, he is not in pain, he`s just trying to get attention! COME ON!
AND THEN! On the way home, DF and I are talking about it. And... he AGREES with the surgen! After 3 doctors telling me he needed surgery and two of them reffering him to a surgen, then this dimwit says make him suffer, he agreed with the dimwitt! GRRR!I was so pissed! I mean don`t get me wrong, I LOVE that he might not need this surgery but they didn`t do anything to help us! They even told me to stop the Tylenol for pain because he shouldn`t be having any! Seriously I am irate at that bitch.
I cannot wait to see the look on her face when we`re in her ER in a month and my kid`s crying out in pain. I hope and pray it is gone and this is not what happens. But if it is...
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