On August 14, 2014, R started limping after he woke up that day (Thursday). It wasn't that noticeable at first and then it seemed to get worse and caused him to fall a few times more. We took him to Dr. Ghahary at Brentwood Medical Clinic on the Friday evening. R did not cry or anything when we saw the doctor and we could not tell if he was in pain but he was limping on his right leg. The doctor just suggested Advil to reduce any possible pain or inflammation. He did, however, recommend that we take him to the hospital if he gets worse, has a fever, or no change by Monday.
By Sunday, he still was not getting better so CF and I took him to Children's Hospital to have him checked out. We went through emergency and the wait was not too long - about half an hour to 45mins. We were then put in a room for diagnosis. They ran xrays, blood tests, and checked movement. But the doctor could not find anything wrong but they ruled out the serious diseases. By about 10pm,(we had been at the hospital for about 4 to 5 hours) the doctors just made a diagnosis of transient synovitis and we went home.
A few days later, R still did not show any real symptoms of synovitis. So the grandparents took him to Dr. Wang (TCM) and Aunt Winky who diagnosed him as having a crooked back (and later a problem with his tailbone) due to frequent falls. They also took him to Dr. Wai Arm Lam. I don't remember what he diagnosed but I never trust his opinion so it doesn't matter anyway.
CF decided to have him checked out by a physiotherapist at 8 Rinks in Burnaby. But she did not know what it was and did not charge us. At the same time, on August 25, we contacted BACI/Infant Development. The nurse did not know what it was either.
After the meeting with the Infant Development nurse, Julia Hart, we concluded that we could contact Donna the physiotherapist to get her opinion. After that meeting, we had an appointment with Dr. Winters. He and his intern did not provide any other suggestions but did decide to rule out juvenile arthritis and perthes disease. He gave us a xray requisition to confirm that there was no small fractures and told us to go to Children's Hospital in a week or so to get it done.
On August 30, we went to see my RMT, Colleen. She noticed that R had some tightness in his hips and massaged the area where his hip bone meets the tailbone. He seemed to be a little bit better a few days later, but we can't really confirm if it was the massage or just time.
It is now September 4 and he is still limping. Today, Aunt Winky said that there is likely an issue with the tailbone which they can not fix at his age.
I would like to take R back for RMT in hopes that we will see so. E improvement.
But all the while, R has retained his normal happy-go-lucky attitude. And he continues to walk and run albeit slower and more wobbly and plays around with A all the time. It is nice to see them playing together instead of fighting over something silly like a toy.
