Toxic What?

A few days before Christmas, our little Claire woke up with a limp in her right leg. I didn't think anything of it because sometimes she thinks she is a gangster and purposely limps around. But the limp never went away.

Then the next day and the next (Christmas day) the limp got so bad that she wouldn't walk and couldn't get up off the floor without something to pull herself up on. She mostly sat in one place and if she had to go somewhere she crawled. Of course I started to get really stressed because we couldn't see any bruises or swelling in her legs but she wouldn't walk. It was also heartbreaking to see my baby surrounded by all her Christmas presents and not be able to move to get to them.

On Friday we finally took her to the doctor. After a long day of trips to the medical lab for a blood draw, not something you want to do the day after Christmas, and after a lot of tears, mostly mine, we found out she had toxic synovitis in her right hip.

Toxic what? Yup that was what I was said. After doing some research we found out that it is a viral infection in her hip. The best way to put it is, she has temporary arthritis in her hip. We don't know how she got it but we were told that it doesn't cause any long lasting problems, thank goodness.

Well it has been two weeks today and she is finally back to her regular self. It seemed to go away as fast as it came. After an experience like this, I am even more grateful for my healthy kids and my heart goes out to parents who have kids that don't get better after two weeks and some medicine.

Claire inspecting the bug we found on the wagon