Potential Purgatory

Two days ago my daughter got in the car from school with pain in her eyes.   This was new.  She'd never had eye pain before.  We got her home and gave her some drops for high pressure as well as Atropine to calm her eyes.   The stabbing pain went away very quickly and she didn't say anything more about it.   She complained about a headache, but she was pointing to her temples, which is where her eyes were and she was saying the pain was internal so we thought that's all it was. 

Today, we got a phone call from school saying she had a headache, and since headache was a symptom of COVID-19, we had to come to pick her up from school.   She would be allowed back to school if one of the following criteria were met: 1) she was seen by her pediatrician who diagnosed her as having some other condition, 2) she had a negative COVID-19 test, or 3) she stayed home for ten days. 

My husband drove her to have a COVID-19 test directly from school, the results of which we'll know tomorrow.   There is always the possibility it's COVID-19, however, she as well as the remainder of her family are showing zero signs of COVID-19 so we don't think it's likely.   There is a complication though, in that if she has another headache, even with a negative test, she has to stay home for ten days unless she has that alternate diagnosis by her pediatrician.   

Her pediatrician isn't going to know about her specific eye situation, especially as we had to change offices because of a change in insurance at the beginning of the year.  I had another suspicion though and when she got home I took her to the chiropractor's office.   I told him she'd had a few headaches.   He touched her shoulders and neck and checked one thing on her shoulder muscles, which was obviously uncomfortable when he touched her.   He asked her a question about the headaches and told her to answer yes or no, and that either answer was fine.  

She agreed that the location of her headaches was just how he'd described them.   He told me she had C6 Trapezius Lock Headaches.   Her lower cervical vertebra, specifically C6 was subluxated and her trapezius muscles were in spasm.  She also had C1 subluxated which I knew from personal experience could cause headaches.   

He did some trigger point work on her trapezius muscles and then adjusted her.   Before we left his office she said to me she felt a lot better, which was a good sign.  She iced the area when we got home and I gave her an NSAID and hopefully, that'll be the end of that with the headaches 

In the meantime, I'd gotten in contact with my daughter's pediatric ophthalmologist worked with her glaucoma specialist and amazingly we have an appointment for nine in the morning tomorrow.   That, for the Duke Eye Center, is quite the feat; they have a long wait time to get in usually. 

Again, hopefully, her eyes are fine and we have nothing to worry about.   We wanted to cover everything though.

The Big Boy Update:  My son is a late-blooming drawer.   He hated drawing anything at all when he was young and never colored a single coloring book.   These days, he's been wanting to stay up late to draw.

The Tiny Girl Chronicles;  My daughter didn't want to lie on her back on the sofa or the bed when we got home to ice her neck after getting an adjustment, she wanted to lie in the sun on the trampoline. I took the ice pack out, climb into the enclosure, and got her set up before heading back out to pick up he brother from school.   It was quite warm lying on the black trampoline bed in the sun.   I can see why she loves to do so.