My little guy

Today they were all at school. Today was nice and quiet. I ran errands, got things done i needed to.

Around lunch i decided to make a doctors appointment as i have this nasty reaction on my ring finger where my rings sit. I thought i'd get it checked out and i would take Marley along to get his eczema checked out around his ear.

So i picked him up early and off we went.

The reaction on my finger is from dishwashing liquid my doctor thinks getting trapped under my rings and now i have this eczema there.

She checked Marleys weight and height as i mentioned a doctor said when he was in hospital for his tummy bug that he thought Marley looked anorexic. I brushed it off at the time, i mean he had only just had days of vomiting.

But it continued to  bother me, that comment and how marley is a picky eater i thought for my own sanity i would ask her about him.

Hes on the 50th percentile for height and weight, hes not malnourished and shes happy with what he eats. Ideally in time she said he'll eat veges but me juicing them for now will be giving him what he needs, shes happy he eats dairy and nuts, the not eating a lot of meat shes not worried about as he'll be getting iron from the vege juice.

She felt he looked healthy and eating nuts will be giving him a lot of good stuff.

She looked at his eczema and has given me some cream for it. She then said i'll give him a check over anyway.

The first thing she did was listen to his chest, she looked up at me and said ' have we talked about a heart murmur before?'

I was shocked, 'ummm no' . My head started running scenarios as she listened to his heart longer. She noted it and said she would like to check his heart more often if that's ok? ummmmmmmmm!!!!! What???

I said 'is this serious?'  She said no , its nothing to worry about she said it sounded like knocking in his heart, and they'll keep an eye on it.

She then took his temp and it was 39.1 she said that could be why his heart has a murmur shes said it was racing from fever...

Ummm again what?? He looks fine.

She looked in his throat, tonsils huge and swollen , red and infected. 

Again!!!!

They did a strep test and it came back negative so its tonsillitis. Hes on a stronger antibiotic, hopefully to rid it this time.

I went in for his skin and left with a sick little guy. The doctor said if he gets this again after this round of antibiotics they'll refer him for tonsils out. And while she thinks his heart murmur is fever related she does want to check his heart while not sick as hes been so unwell this year, and she wouldn't want to miss anything.

Shes really thorough so im pleased for that at least, if it  turns out to be nothing at least she checked it. 

So my poor little guy is in bed asleep. 

This is an older pic of him but i didn't get around to taking any today. Holidays are starting early!

Im sure he'll be fine come next week. I hope.