16/10/2025
Just a little update on our girl:
After noticing her limping for a couple weeks and complaining of pain in her right hip and knee, we decided to get her checked out at our local urgent care. They did some X-rays and thought it looked like she had SCFE so they called a few other specialists for opinions and told us to get her over to UC Davis. They did more X-rays there and were pretty much convinced that’s what it was (as were we after doing some research and finding it is more likely to happen to kids with metabolic diseases) so we were freaking out and prepping for surgery. They finally got her into an MRI machine the next morning and found that it actually did not look like SCFE (thank goodness) but that she had quite a bit of fluid in the hip. They said when the hip is inflamed like that it’s called “Transient Synovitis” and they put her on Toradol in her IV and admitted her for the night. After being on that overnight and resting in the hospital it appeared her leg had gotten better so they decided to release her with crutches and a prescription for ibuprofen that she needed to take for a week. Well after that week went by with zero improvement but rather the pain getting worse they took more X-rays on Monday at her follow up appointment. Unfortunately as we suspected her hip is still inflamed and she hasn’t improved at all. They gave her another NSAID (Naproxen this time) and are going to watch her for one more week. They were pretty discouraged because she definitely should have had at least some improvement by now. If she doesn’t get better this week they will probably be doing a surgery to open up her hip and test the fluid to be sure she’s not septic (I am kind of nervous about waiting another week to do that however she doesn’t seem sick and they have done labs twice to check for signs of infection) and possibly flush the fluid out. I guess this can’t be done with a needle and antibiotics for whatever reason cannot reach that spot according to them so it would have to be an invasive procedure unfortunately. The concern at this point is that she might actually have an autoimmune disease called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis which would explain what’s going on. I am really praying she doesn’t have that, it’s a miserable condition and she really doesn’t need more misery in her life. I’m sharing to ask you all who follow this page to join me in praying for her. I just want answers and to get my girl out of pain. Thank you guys. I’ll post an update when her labs come back and after our follow up next week to see if she’s made any progress.
