As mentioned previously, C had a large lump on her groin
that kept coming and going. I suspected
it was probably a hernia. In January we took her to see our GP and although the
lump was not visible for the Dr to examine, the photo I had managed to take a few days before was convincing enough for him to refer us to a Consultant Paediatrician
at our local hospital. Unfortunately he was spread across all the hospitals in
our region and only available in our local hospital once a month. We were
therefore warned that it may be a couple of months until we got to see him.
We eventually received an appointment date of 22nd
March. In the meantime I was noticing C’s
suspected hernia more and more frequently. In seemed most visible in early
afternoon after a bowel movement however didn’t appear to be causing her any
distress.
A couple of weeks ago, a week after her 1st birthday, C was being grumpier than
normal. This soon deteriorated into
howls of pain. Nothing I could do would
soothe her, it was quite distressing. I
should stress again that at no point until now had her hernia caused her any noticeable
distress, therefore it was just a passing thought to check her groin at this
point. I was shocked to see a lump swollen to the size of a golf ball and rock
solid. I ran into DH’s room where he was on a conference call and gesticulated wildly at him. After making his excuses
to his colleagues and taking one look at C, we are in the car on the way to
A&E.
