Eliana had a follow-up appointment on April 12, 2011. All of these appointments started getting jumbled together and I questioned whether or not I was really supposed to make that appointment or not. Thankfully, I was not going crazy.
Eliana first had to be weighed in. She's a whopping 13.8 pounds!
The whole time, I was a little irritated as to why we even had this appointment. After all, no further testing had been done, so what was there to discuss? The doctor came in and I was ready with a notebook of questions. I wasn't going to let this be a waste of an appointment! I always come out of there feeling so confused since we have been seeing so many different doctors there.
I asked my questions and then Dr. Hedrick asked when the last time was that she had eaten. The last time she ate was abut 4 hours ago, so it was just about mealtime. "Perfect!" she said. She wanted to see if they could squeeze us in for an ultrasound since she would be due for one again soon anyway. She wanted the hemangioma and lung mass (BPS) to be checked.
We went down to outpatient registration and signed in. We waited for over an hour. I understood that they "squeezed" us in, but this poor baby was starving. And Karalyn was in desperate need of a nap. She would not fall asleep. Both of them took turns being heard!
Kara made friends with a little boy, maybe about 13 years old. She started a game with him where she would share her doll and he would hold it and hug it and give it back to her. Then she would throw it. And repeat...again...and again... It kept her very occupied. I thought it was so sweet that this little boy was trying to make the wait easier for her.
Next thing I know, Jim takes the double stroller into the hallway thinking that he can get Kara to sleep. I'm sitting there in the waiting room, playing Words With Friends on my iPhone and I see Jim and the new friend "racing" down the hallway. I think he was having more fun than any of them! What a sight it was...
The ultrasound was done in no time at all. After all that waiting, it was over so quickly.
Dr. Hedrick told us that we could check in and see if she was still there when the ultrasound was finished. She said if she wasn't, we could have her paged. I have gotten more crazy looks when I ask to have Dr. Hedrick paged.
It was obvious that we would not have any answers that day. I called the next day and felt like I didn't get anywhere. I received a call around dinner time from the nurse practitioner. She said that she could read the results for me but that she still had some questions for Dr. Hedrick.
What she was about to tell me turned my world upside down! She said that the hemangioma had decreased in size and for some reason...the BPS wasn't seen AT ALL. There can be a multitude of reasons why BUT this whole time that is what we have been praying for!
I hung up and the phone (still quite composed) and Jim didn't have any idea what the news was that I just heard. I started crying tears...tears of joy. I somehow managed to get the words out.
He has answered...was what I kept thinking!
Dr. Hedrick called and repeated the words of the nurse. She said we will have her liver checked again in July and we may not even need to ever have her lung looked at again because the mass is so small.
This is the happiest news I could have gotten. But still, my heart goes out to any family who did not receive the wonderful news that we received. It was the worst feeling in the world for me to think of this little girl having to go through surgery.
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