For good cheer, move on

If you were seeking a lift from extreme parenting and the demoralization it entails, well, you've come to the wrong address. This post is limited to bad cheer.

For a full week now, C has been running a low grade fever along with other disconcerting symptoms: sleepiness, unresponsiveness, unsteadiness, seizures both major and minor throughout the day.

Neither the blood tests nor her pediatrician's clinical exam revealed any alarming findings and he thinks C. could just have a virus. But he did notice two anomalies for which he's referred us to an abdominal ultrasound and x-ray:

• "Vertically-oriented abdominal mass to L of midline, partly pulsatile, probably abdominal aorta" (but he assured me it's probably so prominent because C. is so thin)
• "L-sided abdominal masses palpated, oriented vertically. Suspect stool masses" (and he assured me this is easily remedied with laxatives).

He wants us to do an abdominal ultrasound and x-ray before treatment. So, with Wednesday the earliest appointment date I could get for those tests, until then it's just wait and endure.

On the right is my sketch of what C. has looked like this past week.