What do you do for an almost 8-year-old who snores like a band saw? I’m not kidding. Emma has been rattling the windows lately, and I think I’m finally going to have to get off my can and do something about it. I’m notorious for dragging my feet about going to the doctor. Not for the serious, life-threatening things, but for these little nagging things that don’t just go away on their own. It’s just such a bother, you know? You have to call and listen to the 8 billion voice mail options and then finally leave a message telling them what you want, just so a real person can call you within the hour to set up an appointment. Then you have to take your kid out of school and rush to the doctor’s office to get there on time, only to sit for half an hour and have all the truly sick people breathe and hack all over you. Needless to say, we practically bathe in the hand sanitizer when we’re there.
I realize that this attitude makes me a lousy parent. Lauren could come and tell me that her leg was falling off, and I’d probably say “I’m sure it’s fine. Let’s just wait a few days and see if it gets any better”. My kids are so used to my automatic response to their sore stomach complaints (“you probably just have to poop”), that now they will say “MystomachhurtsanditsnotbecauseIhavetogotothebathroom”, just like that, all in one breath.
But I digress. The snoring.
It probably started about 6 weeks or so ago. I noticed it after I put the girls to bed and was sitting watching TV. I actually heard her OVER my TV show. She’d been a little stuffed up, so I figured that it was just a cold and it would pass. It has not. And now she sounds like she’s talking around a golf ball in her throat. So I googled it and it looks like it’s probably her adenoids. No surprise there. I’m nervous because I don’t want her to have the surgery. We’ve been down this road with Lauren, only in her case it was chronic ear infections (which led to some temporary hearing loss), a strange voice change that made her sound like Disney’s Stitch, and the aforementioned enormous tonsils. She had to have the tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, and it was not a fun recovery at all. Plus, after Lauren had her surgery I did a medicolegal report for one of my doctors about a little boy whose tonsillectomy went bad, and now I have myself totally freaked out about the whole thing.
I’m probably panicking for nothing, right? They really don’t like to do tonsillectomies anymore unless they really have to, so maybe talking around a golf ball isn’t a good enough reason to operate. Sigh. I guess there’s only one way to know for sure. Break out the hand sanitizer.
3 comments:
Have you thought about using the Breathe RIght strips..they work wonders for me and wish I could wear them all day! Not so fashionable!!:):) WOW, my sinuses clear right up and I can breathe wonderfully!! I'm not sure if kids can use them but I don't see why not! They are cheaper at Walmart! Good luck!!
I hadn't thought about those, actually. Darren tried them once and they did nothing for him, but we just recently found out that he has a deviated septum, so maybe that's why. Hmmm...i'll definitely give it a try. Thanx for the tip!
btw...I LOVE the name of your blog!!:):) One more thing...remind me to ask you how you changed your background, etc and set up your page...I can't figure it out!!
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