Anderson's Hip Issue

A few weeks ago, Anderson's teacher at school noticed that Anderson was not putting weight on his right leg.  We had not noticed it at home, and he definitely did not seem affected by this at all.  He was still running around and playing like normal.  Then over the weekend, we noticed that Anderson would not put weight on his right leg when we would put him down from being held, but once he was down, he would pull himself up and walk around again.  Weird, right?  So I called the doctor on Monday, fully expecting them to tell us not to worry about it, but they wanted us to bring him in.  In two seconds, Dr. Killinger knew that it was "irritable hip syndrome." Apparently, it is fairly common when a kid has recently been sick (Anderson had an ear infection about 3 weeks earlier).  The virus will migrate to the joints and cause inflammation.  So the cure was no walking for 3 days, which is not an easy task for a highly active 11-month old boy! But within three days, Anderson was back to being 100%.  It was a rough couple of days for all of us, but we are all doing great now.