The MRI Results…

Just got back.

It is a vascular anomaly or type of  hemangioma and may have a vascular inclusion, but that is not clear.  Totally benign.  *Not* caused by my dropping him at 3 weeks.  Perhaps triggered by that.

Apparently the dermatology department have seen these a lot and have found that Beta Blockers, through studies through out the UK, work to reduce them, so that is one option.  Our consultant, is going to consultant with them and see if they agree that that will work for Adam.

So option one is do nothing, it will probably go away.

Option two is Beta Blockers.

Option three is surgery, but our consultant is really not keen on that, because if there is a vascular inclusion could mean major, dangerous bleeding.  Advantage of surgical removal is then they can send it to Pathology and really find out what it is.

Option four is to assume it is systemic and treat it as such, which means systemic drugs like steroids.

Next steps: Our consultant is going to review the MRI and ultrasound with Dermatology and with Radiology and see if they agree with his feeling that Beta Blockers are the way to go.  We should hear from either him or dermatology in 3 – 4 weeks.

It is not harming him in any way.  It does not bother him in any way.  He sleeps on it, he rolls over it, etc.  Our consultant pushed and prodded and poked at it and Adam just lay there smiling at him!

So in another few weeks we should have a treatment plan.

So how does Mummy feel?

Relieved.

I guess I hadn’t let myself think about it much, but I was worried that it was taking blood or something from some other part of his body and doing damage we couldn’t see.  I also had some residual guilt from ‘causing it’ by dropping him.  So I didn’t cause it, even if the fall might have triggered it.

And since he rolls over it, sleeps on it and seems to not know its there?  Adam doesn’t care what we do!