Bradley's First Appt

Bradley had his first appointment today for his surgery. This wasn't the actual surgery. We met with the dr and she looked at his bump and tested his eyesight to make sure the bump hadn't affected anything.

The bump is called a dermoid cyst and is just a bunch of cells that form a sack of "junk". Its not liquid filled so they can't just drain it and it has to be surgically removed. If the cyst is ruptured it will cause significant inflammation and cause the cyst to multiply in the area it was spread and get just as big as the original one.

Sometimes with these cysts so close to the eye they form a dumbbell cyst. This is where its a sac on the outside that connects to another sac on the other side of the skull. So the visual would be weight on one side connected to a weight on the other side like a dumb bell.
Bradley has to get an MRI to make sure that this didn't happen. If it did then they have to remove part of his skull to get the sac because they can't rupture it.

We have to schedule an MRI with UC Davis because our imaging center up here in Chico isn't connected with the hospital so they can't anesthetize him here.
Hopefully I can talk with our pediatrician to see if there is anything he can prescribe him so we can get it done up here. Otherwise that means at least four trips to Sacramento- One pre-surgical consultation, MRI, Surgery, and post-op. I know they are specialized with children because they do it all day long. It would just be nice to cut an appointment and traveling out.

I was very nervous for today's appointment. I thought they were going to run a lot of tests, bloodwork, hours of poking and prodding etc.. The only test the really did was dilate his eyes to see the back of the eye ball if there is any damage or it didn't grow correctly. She said everything looks fine and his eyes are perfect. The want to do bloodwork closer to the surgery date so we didn't have to do that today.

I was completely expecting surgery to just remove the cyst off of his eyebrow. But to know that it could be much worse and they have to remove part of his skull it just terrifying.
We will be fasting for Bradley that his test results come back showing the cyst is just on the outside. We would appreciate any fasting or prayers on his behalf. I will keep everyone updated for when we can schedule his MRI.