Dr. Marker comes to the rescue! Last Sunday afternoon Leah woke up from a nap in the car crying that her neck hurt. When we got home, she didn't turn her head to the right. For the next couple days she complained about her neck, sometimes she said she couldn't turn her head right and sometimes she couldn't turn left. I tried a couple times to move her head and I could tell it really bothered her. Finally, the other morning daycare called me to say that she was really in pain. We'd been googling her symptoms and the results weren't looking great. Meningitis, shunt tubing issue, or worse. Luckily, Dr. Marker's office was able to squeeze us into his busy schedule because she was in pain. As soon as he walked into the room, he said very definitively it's not a shunt issue. I was wondering how the heck he could possibly know that when he barely saw her for 5 seconds, but sure enough he felt her neck and said that her lymph nodes were swollen and she has tonsillitis. Then he laughed and apologized that he probably should have said that on the phone when we talked to him.
Leah was a trooper! She was so cooperative when he looked in her ears, felt around her neck and she even opened wide enough so he could see her tonsils... which, sure enough, were infected. Again, I still am trying to wrap my head around how he knew that. We were only there for a few minutes and a huge relief came across us both. We had packed a bag thinking there was a chance we'd be heading into the hospital that afternoon. Nope! Instead we got to go home and take a long nap. Leah slept for 3 hours!!
While we were there, Dr. Marker did say something that scared the crap out of us. In passing conversation he was talking about tonsils and referenced his brother, who, at 70 years old, is a few years younger than Dr. Marker. Ty and I both looked at each other in horror... Dr. Marker is in his 70's??!!??!! No, no, no, no, no! What are we going to do without him? Oh the horror! Seriously, I don't know what we are going to do without him. What other doctor does what he does? I can't think about him not being around much longer. It's going to be a very sad day for us when he retires because of how amazing he is. Not just because he knows a lot about SB or tonsillitis but because he's still "old school" and will return our calls at all hours of the day, squeeze us into his busy schedule, and give us such a peace of mind about Leah.
Now that we are on day 3 of antibiotics, Leah seems to be doing much better. She slept all through the night last night for the first time in a long time. She still won't turn her head all the way, but that's more out of fear that it will hurt than it actually hurts right now. She was very happy to go back to school yesterday and rolled into the classroom announcing, "I'm all betty now!" Our little girl is on the mend.
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