8 weeks old

We get to the Dr. office and she says, "Wow, his breathing sounds really bad" And "How long has this hemangioma been on his lip?" Hemagi what??? Never heard of it before, so how can my baby have one, two, or three, or FOUR! She said "It sounds like he has croup, but he is so young for croup, just to be sure go get some chest x-rays done right now." On our way out, she said "Not to scare you, but I remember one case way back in my residency where an infant had multiple hemangiomas on her face and one in her airway. I'm going to call an ENT I know at Children's Hospital in Birmingham and get his thoughts on this." The chest x-rays were fine, no lung problems. We get back to the Dr. office and she immediately sends us to Birmingham to Children's Hospital to see this pediatric ENT. Dr. Woolley.

Dr. Woolley is in clinic that day so we wait and wait and wait, all the while worrying, we are at a Children's Hospital after all. Never thought I would be there with my 8 week old baby! We finally meet Dr. Woolley and he does a shorter scope (through the nose) but couldn't see anything. He admitted us to the pulmonary floor at the hospital for the weekend.

Monday he did the first of many DLB (Direct Larangoscopy and Bronchoscopy) or 'scope' as I will refer to it here (Bryce has to go under general anesthesia everytime they do this scope) and said, good news, it is croup (no hemangioma being the good news). We went home from the hospital the next day.