Ever heard of Transient Synovitis? Yeah....I hadn't either, until today. So, yesterday morning Ava wakes up EARLY EARLY yelling and crying that her leg hurt. She kept grabbing her knee and made me rub it for a while. After about a half hour or so, she stopped complainig so we figured she just had a dead leg or something. This morning she wakes up at about 6:30am screaming and crying that she has an owie. Same thing....same leg....same exact spot that she's pointing to and grabbing. I think it's weird, but figure she must have slept in the same position and has another dead leg. After a while, she wasn't getting any better. It was way worse than yesterday. She was just cryin and shaking every few minutes because it hurt so bad. I try to get her up to go potty, but she wouldn't put ANY pressure on it. Every time she'd try she'd just fall to the floor. Saddest thing you've ever seen. So, naturally...I call the doctor. We take her in and he suspects it's something called transient synovitis. Evidently what it means is she had a viral infection somewhere else in the last few weeks and instead of the antibodies that faught it leaving the body, they settle in a joint. Typically they settle in the hip, but he thinks they settled in her knee instead. It was all swollen up. We also had to take her to get blood drawn so he can make sure it's not bacterial (which would be much worse). Unfortunately, there's not much they can do for her. It will supposedly pass in about a week. All we can do is treat it with motrin for pain and inflammation. As we got home tonight she says to me....."Mom.....I had a rough day. That lady poked me. It hurt really bad!"....poor kid. Here's a pic of her knee from this morning.
