so last October i had to take my son to the Dr for an audiology referral whilst there he found the lump behind my sons ear, its been there since Easter he then checked him all over and found more enlarged lymph nodes, he called the one behind his ear abnormal, anyway the Dr ordered blood tests which came back fine and he said end of story, well a month later we had an appointment with the peadiatric consultant come through. we had no idea why so my husband rang the department and the woman on the phone said she couldn't release any information on patients but that we were to make sure we came to the appointment and could we please not rearrange, my husband pressed her further until she told him not to worry but our son needs to be monitored by specialists. what the hell does that even mean?? the next day we had a letter from our gp surgery with a copy of the appointment letter and that also stated not to rearrange, so i rang them and the receptionist told me that our gp wrote to them asking for advice and that the consultant arranged the appointment as he was unwilling to discuss it through correspondence. wth does that mean??! his appointment is in a couple of days, they gave him their first cancellation but not an emergency appointment, his appt is only 6 weeks from the consultant replying to my gp, the usual waiting list is 18 weeks.
Im so scared of going, in the last 4 weeks this lump has tripled in size and my boy has a 2-3 hour nap almost everyday, he hardly eats. what if there's something awfully wrong with him? i just want to know if anyone else has experienced this and its been a false alarm? sorry for my rubbish typing, spelling and grammar x