Trying to ease my wild thoughts - my 4 year old just came out complaining that his "leg" hut - he has a swollen and very tender lymph node (maybe 2) in his groin area. Normally I wouldn't think huge amounts of it, but I know a lady whose son was originally diagnose with "spider bites" in the same area and it ended up being leukemia. This is also the same child that was born with a "cyst" (what they think it was anyway) in his eye/tear duct area - it got infected at 6 days old and ruptured... we spent nearly a week in the hospital with high powered IV antibiotics, then unknown breathing and apnea problems that led to oxygen for a year. To say I am a bit paranoid now is likely understandable...
DH doesn't think it's anything b/c he's not in "major" pain, but this is the kid that at 2 broke his leg and barely cried (the only indicator something was wrong was that he wouldn't put any weight on it)... he's got a decent pain tolerance. I think I am going to call the Pediatrician in the morning, just to be on the safe side. He flinches when I touch it which is telling to me. He said to trust my mommy instinct, he has learned over the years that it's not always spot on, but a lot of time it is (I was the one that initially flagged the breathing issues that were brushed off by the nurse and doctor at first, she later apologized profusely after seeing the results of his first sleep study).
DH doesn't think it's anything b/c he's not in "major" pain, but this is the kid that at 2 broke his leg and barely cried (the only indicator something was wrong was that he wouldn't put any weight on it)... he's got a decent pain tolerance. I think I am going to call the Pediatrician in the morning, just to be on the safe side. He flinches when I touch it which is telling to me. He said to trust my mommy instinct, he has learned over the years that it's not always spot on, but a lot of time it is (I was the one that initially flagged the breathing issues that were brushed off by the nurse and doctor at first, she later apologized profusely after seeing the results of his first sleep study).
. I have a call in to the ped. office, we'll see what they say. I don't want to rush him in for nothing, then bring home who-knows-what. It seems like one doctors visit for one child leads to multiples for everyone else for 4-6 weeks after :roll: Although their immune systems seem to be doing much better now that they are older - we survived winter with just one or two hiccups (even with rampant strep, flu, and stomach crud)... they might have had the flu early on, we all got knocked out with something, but it wasn't worth a doctors visit to figure out what it was, we just waited it out (48 hours at a time, each person... one by one by one :roll: ). <br /><br /> __________ Tue Apr 18, 2017 8:24 am __________ <br /><br /> Appt. at 5:15 today - I think she's seeing us after hours (her day is usually full by 8:30, I didn't talk to the nurse until 9). The triage nurse said the pain is what's most concerning. She asked a couple other specific questions about how it felt to the touch (size, did it move, etc.), but he ran from me when I tried to check 
