Well as much as I might wish this post was about a Cotillion or even had a sexual connotation, it’s not. It’s about that stupid, swollen lymph node I’ve had in my neck for the last 7 months. I went to the doctor’s on Friday, much to the chagrin of many of my daycare families as most were pissed that I took a day off for it, to have the node checked. It hasn’t changed at all, hasn’t gotten smaller or bigger, hasn’t become fixed or hard, just remains enlarged from normal size. My doctor assured me that he felt that it was nothing to be concerned about but also said it was up to me as to what we do next.

I started out saying “Well it’s been there for 7 months now.”

“Then we’ll remove it and send it to pathology to have it analyzed.” he said.

“You can’t do a needle biopsy?” I asked.

“No” he said “It’s a cervical node and we can’t be sticking a needle around in there that close to your spine.”

I agree. But that means that I will have to have it surgically removed. Ugh. And while I know that’s the right thing to do, I’m a little frightened of the whole procedure also. Not even so much about the procedure but the answers I’ll finally be getting.

He said we can wait until after the holidays which is what I will do. In case there is anything there to deal with I don’t want to know until after Christmas anyway. But I need to know for my children. If there is something seriously wrong with me, I want to know now so I can fix it before it’s gone to far. And if it’s nothing then I’ll have peace of mind.

So I’ll be having this done the week between Christmas and New Years so as not to inconvenience any daycare families as I am already closed that week anyway. See, what happened last week was I had to close down last Monday because 3 out of 4 of my children were vomiting and had diarrhea. I wasn’t feeling so hot either. This went on with my family off and on all week but Monday was the only day I officially closed down. I called the families each day to let them know how we were and let them choose whether or not to bring their children and expose them or make other arrangements. I thought I was being fair. As I talked with parents on Thursday I reminded them that I was closed on Friday and from more than one person I got

“Well you’re not still taking Friday off are you?”

To which I responded “Well I still have the same appointments that I had when I notified everyone 3 months ago that I was taking it off.”

From one parent in particular “Well I just figured since you haven’t really been available at all this week you wouldn’t really close on Friday too.”

Guess you figured wrong. This is why the daycare parents drive me nuts.