Wednesday and pediatrician appointment.

Was anyone expecting any school work to get done today, yeah I had kinda planned it or wished it.   I was unsure how school would get done today.  

I recieved a phone all at 9 am for nathan to be at the pediatric clinic for 11.   Perfect 1 1/2 hrs of school can be accomplished except we agreed to do our friends paper route because they are away.   That takes 1 1/2 hrs.   So we did part of the paper route, my parents came down and my dad took Gigi around to finish her paper route and my mom and I went to Nathan's appointment.  

Nathan's appointment, well good news is that his lump is healing and going away.  Bad news his genius pediatrician is stumped as to a cause, it is very irregular.     Here is what we know: it's vascular, it's sitting in top of the muscle underneath the epidermis, it is not a bruise.   

I asked a few questions.  I asked well if this was a trauma you would see more discoloration because if he was hit a hematoma ( bruise) would occur in the epidermis.  Well the answer to this was probably, but trauma still can't be ruled out.  

I suggested that this could be a ruptured vessel in the facia. My theory is this would cause a hematoma and have no visible discoloration bruising as it is quite deep.  This seemed to be the most plausible explanation but we can not know for sure.  

He said nathan is a medical mystery and said well you should be used to that.   

How does this make me feel?  Relieved that it is going away without needing intervention.  Slightly worried that this was a spontaneous rupture of and artery.   But I want nathan to feel like a normal kid, do all the things other kids do.  Nathan is a cautious guy, I know it would worry him if we did more invasive testing on him to try and solve the case.  I think he needs to know he is a healthy child.  He knows his limitations most of the time.  I don't want him to be afraid of going to the dr, or afraid when something new happens to him, because we all know he is constantly going to have something new happening to him.  So I think for now this is the course we need to take.  If another thing happens like this I think we will get an MRIA done to see a clearer picture.  We talked about getting a MRIA done when nathan was 12 to rule out any vascular events such as dissections or aneurysms, maybe we can ask to have it done when he is 11.  We see his pediatrician in another 2 months for a follow up check.  

After drs visit we went home and I made lunch for everyone while nathan found Gigi and helped her finish the papers.   We then had hockey from 1-3.  Raced home to deliver 8 papers to the housed my dad and Gigi could not find, took in my neighbors garbage can because they left today on vacation ( too bad I forgot to take out mine at 7 am, or too bad I slept right through hearing the truck), and sent nathan in to have a shower and Gigi to change from hockey star to cheerleader.  Gigi almost scored a goal today!   It was pretty awesome.  We managed to get out if the door at 4:01 to head to cheer.  

We had dinner at Wendy's after cheer, I told the kids it was bedtime when we got home even though it was 7:30, although nathan was still awake at 9:30.  He was hot and having a hard time sleeping.  Not sure what is bothering him.  

Tomorrow is another day :) let the week carry on and get easier...