Every kid complains once in a while that their bones hurt, and what do we, as mothers, say? “It’s just growing pains. “Baruch Hashem, you’re growing, and soon you’ll be taller…” This is what I found myself telling 5-year-old Mendy a few times too many when he complained that his left knee was hurting. In the beginning, I told him that it would pass, and before we knew it, he’d be taller than me! We shared a laugh, and he wandered off, content. The next morning, he came down with fever. I gave him Tylenol, and he stayed home from school. His fever persisted the next day, along with what obviously excruciating pain in his leg. Growing pains are rarely excruciating, so I promised him that when his fever went down, we’d have a doctor check out his knee.
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