Kid 1 STILL having throat issues (just fielded my 27th call from the nurse describing her swollen and red tonsils) and please tell me why my friends are suggesting it’s the KN95s that are bothering her, and not the ancient school building.
Yes, this makes sense. I tend to want to be conservative with interventions but then again, it’s my kid and she’s a mess! I guess I just wish that the doctor had been more interested in explaining this or coming up with other solutions.
I just…don’t know how to help her and it seems like tonsillectomies solved everything when I was a kid! Last strep culture was negative; I’ll try and get her swabbed tomorrow.
Medicine people, can someone explain the move away from tonsillectomies?
My 9YO routinely has had swollen glands and regularly complains about a sore throat for the past few months. Her ped said they don’t do it anymore??
The background is a mild case of Covid once back in 2021, a few weeks post vaccination. She’s been boosted regularly and no obvious long term complications. We mask indoors and test often (so I’m fairly certain just the one infection).
I don’t know that her ped (who is generally fine!) is worried (enough?). We’ve been seen once- when the school nurse remarked on her glands feeling swollen- and was told it was viral and sent home.
She missed a week with the flu and we’ve gotten terse attendance letters (but I’m not sending a feverish kid to school!). So it’s affecting her quality of life for sure and I’m not sure what a next step should be (or that her ped is hearing us?).
And yes, reproductive rights are for everyone! But I am especially interested in them for the sake of my three uterus-having kiddos. It was not their fault to be born in Ohio, so the grownups have to vote for their rights.
TIL that the old ladies and dudes I see walking their dogs on the trail in the mornings seem to dislike republicans, racism, and voter suppression, so I think I picked a good trail.
They DO seem inordinately worried about human trafficking and fentanyl exposure, so I’m making media literacy my conversational emphasis from here on out.
