Jordyn

Jordyn, my four year old, has never been the type of child to be defiant or unruly. All of this changed late last year when we started getting calls from his pre-k teacher and letters sent home from the principle. Jordyn was acting out and seemed to always be tired. He was the first one down at nap time and the last one up. The teacher suggested that he be put down early at night, but his bedtime was already 8:30 pm. I am not the type of mother that says “oh no, not my child”. When one of them does something that is disrupting class I will go to any lengths to help the teacher. It seemed nothing we did helped him to get the adequate rest he needed to function at school. Then the sore throats started and just kept coming. I tried every home remedy known to man, to try and help him, to no avail.

From October 2011 to January 2012, it seemed like every day he was waking up with a sore throat. Every occurrence was the same; he would wake up in a bad mood, saying his throat hurt. Sure enough every time I checked his throat, there they were the tonsils from hell. Red, inflamed and coated with a white film, nearly touching each other and one or the other touching his uvula (the little dangly thing at the back of the throat) at all times. I called the doctor at each occurrence and when they asked “What does your child need to be seen for today?” my reply, “He has strep throat”. I think he had strep throat one time; the other 5 trips it was just enlarged tonsils. Finally, we get a referral to the ear, nose and throat doctor to hopefully find out what is going on.

Our first visit to the E.N.T was very simple; they looked at Jordyn’s throat and nose and ask an array of questions about what he had been going through. The doctor announced that she wants to have him allergy tested and an x-ray taken of his adenoids. I am not a doctor and I think to myself, what does allergy testing has to do with his tonsils? Thinking all the time this place is trying to get as much money as possible. Man was I wrong. I take Jordyn for allergy testing and sure enough he is allergic to: eggs, milk, oat, and mold. So now that two of his favorites, eggs and oat (strawberries and cream oatmeal), have been cut from his diet, we have to wait two more weeks to come back to the doctor. Two weeks of not eating anything he is allergic to and hopefully we have found the source of our aggravation and most of all Jordyn’s aggravation.

This morning was our follow up appointment with the E.N.T doctor. He has done so much better since we cut out the foods that he is allergic to; I assumed he was going to be ok. Why I keep assuming after all of this I do not have a clue. Of course he is not “ok”. Yes he is doing better but not good enough. Now our journey begins and he has to have a tonsillectomy and an adenoidectomy. Just to give you a little insight, Jordyn does not take pain very well. Oh Lord, this is going to be fun!