My DD is 4 and a bit. Just before her 3rd birthday, she was still sleeping at 8.30am (not particularly unusual for her) so I went and got her up as my dad had arrived for us to go swimming. She was floppy, barely conscious and couldn't talk. Rushed to A&E. She started being sick. She couldn't walk or weight bear. They did blood tests and a CT scan. No cause found. There was talk of moving her to a specialist hospital in London but she got better after a couple of days and was discharged with no explanation/ diagnosis. She was still wobbly on her feet for a few weeks and I repeatedly took her to the GP but they said she wasn't sick enough for A&E and it was just 'one of those weird things'. Looking back I should have fought harder for an explanation, but I am/ was in my early 20s and just free of DV. And I did repeatedly ask for medical advice and I was just fobbed off.
About 6 months ago, she presented with a weird mark on the top of her leg. Like a deep stretch mark. I worked at a GPs then, and the GPs I work with who I showed a picture to seemed quite concerned. Said to demand an immediate blood test, and to mention that they said so if it was refused. I searched online and found what disease they were worried about. Took her to her GP who said she had no other symptoms of this so she was not concerned. Name dropped (
) the head GP at my place of work and they relented into getting a second opinion within the surgery and got me to write a symptom diary. But it faded in a few weeks and they said there was no need for a follow up.
Then, when I went to get her up 4 months or so ago, she had had a nosebleed. Thought maybe she had banged her face or something, but her bed is right next to mine so it didn't really make much sense. Googled again () and it said it was quite common and nothing to worry about. But since then she's had a few more, increasing in frequency (so after 2 months, then a month, then 2 weeks roughly). Today I went to get her from nursery and she'd had another one (her first ever in the day). They said she'd just been playing with Lego. I asked her about it and she said she thought she had snot so she went to get a wipe and her teacher said she'd had a nosebleed. All quite articulately so I think if she'd banged it or another kid had hurt her, she would definitely say.
Reading this back it sounds really neglectful of me! But she's a ridiculously healthy kid. Just got over chickenpox with barely a moan, passes on horrible cold/ sickness viruses to me and she coughs for maybe 3 hours or is sick once. She's so healthy. And the GPs keep making me feel really silly.
I'm going to book a doctors appointment for her tomorrow, and fight her ground. But now I've googled the symptoms all together and they say that unexplained change in behaviour, unexplained marking on the skin and unexplained bleeding are all cancer symptoms.
It doesn't say about whether this still counts with such a time lapse in between symptoms though? But I'm fretting. It's still bloody weird to have all these unexplained symptoms in the space of 14 months, is it not?
Reassure me please. Or tell me realistically what you think. But please don't flame me.