A week ago...(it feels like a month ago!!) as I drove away from the ENT's rooms I noticed a sore, swollen lymph node on the left side of my neck. I would have mentioned it at the appointment if I'd noticed it earlier but these things rarely appear at convenient moments.
I adopt my favourite form of treatment (ignore it and it'll go away) and 2 days later I have a very sore cricket ball sized bulge on the side of my neck.
I find a doctor who can see me and I'm convinced it's to do with whatever is breeding in my left sinus.
Doctor diagnoses parotitis/silaidenitis and tells me to have an unltrasound to confirm and start taking antibiotics.
I loathe antibiotics so I defer til after the scan the next morning.
As usual I'm plagued with yet another rare (or at the very least unusual ailment). In my case it's been most likely caused by a dry mouth since none of the other risk factors apply.
A week later only a small bulge remains but I'm still cranky about it.
I feel like I haven't sewn in months but really it was just a few weeks ago.
Other than that DS is back at school (wahhhh!) but his teacher is lovely and very enthusiastic and its rubbing off on him which I'm thrilled about!
Here are the promised pics:
Just before getting in the car...
I did have some lovely classroom photos that my little monkey deleted from the camera while I was talking to his teacher after school. He replaced them with about 10 self portraits. Here's one:
Last one is below. I also added a photo from the same time last year. Just to clarify - he is in grade 1 this year and at his school (K-12), Preps wear sports uniform (kinder/preschool wear a modified version) and from grade 1, full junior school uniform applies. He looks so grown up! I'm disappointed they only wear ties in winter. They suit him! Click on each pic for a bigger version.
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