Author: Carol Wirth

“After more than 15 years in public relations with roots in journalism, I reached a point where I needed to find what I was passionate about in my profession or find a new one. I thought I would come out of the process changing careers. Instead, I found what I truly love about the one I’ve already got: Telling people’s stories. Everyone’s got a story – it’s what makes people (and people make up businesses) who they are, it’s their personality, their difference. I enjoy finding the story, pulling it out, making it relevant and communicating it to the public. In my adapted career, I simply found another way to communicate the stories – through documentary video.”
You can contact Carol at carol@glimsity.com

An eager child enters a new class in preschool. His teachers say he has trouble listening and following directions. He is constantly sick while adapting to new germs. His mother (that’s me) sends him off to school hoping for the best. He’s missed out on so much of school already, and I have exhausted PTO and vacation days.
One night, his dad and I attend an event. I ask another mother during cocktail conversation how her child is doing. The other mother says, “He’s great! He just got his tonsils out and is so much happier.”
“Oh?” I inquire. “How did you know he needed his tonsils out?”
The very next morning, I research enlarged tonsils online. As I dig further, I find symptoms matching my child’s condition. The medical term associated with these symptoms is “obstructive sleep apnea.”
I schedule an exam with the pediatrician now that I’m able to pinpoint the issues. I get a referral for an ear, nose and throat surgeon. Upon examining my child, the ENT surgeon schedules a tonsillectomy within four days noting that 90 percent of the child’s air passages were blocked. He wasn’t getting enough air!
I was told that children with enlarged tonsils don’t get adequate sleep. I put my child to bed for what I thought was 10 hours of sleep, but he was actually only getting 6 hours of rested sleep.
Sleep apnea affects many adults. Click here to see the rest of the video that tells more about what you can do: Dr. Oliver on Sleep Apnea.
However, in children, sleep apnea can be very problematic. Experts say that it can cause hyperactivity, aggressive behavior, and the inability to stay awake, leading some to diagnose those children with ADHD. Bedwetting, daytime sleepiness, and hyperactivity all could be signs of sleep apnea. And obstructive sleep apnea in children can be the result of large tonsils.
But this is what the medical experts are for…not a blog on the Internet.
In this digital age, people are accustomed to having more information at their fingertips. Yet we still need a professional assessment. And we seek the comfort and security knowing that our child is being looked after with the utmost care. As a mother, I was so relieved to identify the problem and know that it could be fixed.
So why did I share this story with you? At Glimsity, we aim to be a source for more information when you go searching online.
Through Lil G Blog, we try to share information that we think can help people. Our goal is to share what we know as authentically as possible. The videos we often reference in the articles are found on Glimsity because that is what we know and we’re sharing it with you.
Glimsity is a place that you can identify a doctor who suits your comfort level, or find a fit with a lawyer, realtor or artist to commission a painting.
Glimsity is about conveying the stories of local business, professionals and organizations as honestly as we can. If there is someone whose story needs to be told, let us know about it!
Now back to my story in this blog…For many months after the surgery, I said with astonishment, “He sleeps so quietly, like an angel.” And he continues to sleep soundly to this day.
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