Change of Plans!

Dr. Woolley called yesterday while Bryce was napping. Not a phone call I expected that is for sure! He said he sent Bryce's pictures around to some leading hemangioma surgeons and they all said they would do the surgery now rather than waiting a year or two. Wow! They all felt like since there was such little change in the past year, that it wouldn't change much more in the next 2. We will go for a consultation sometime soon and ask all of our many questions then, but we talked about the basics yesterday.

He will start with debulking the bottom lip from the outside, not the inside. The majority of the hemangioma is on the outside of the lip so this only makes sense. He will have a small scar, but what is one more??? He will have disolvable stitches. He will have to be intubated for the surgery and with his smaller than normal airway there is always the chance of swelling so we will probably spend one night in the hospital. If this surgery doesn't debulk the lip enough he will do another surgery this time coming from the inside of his lip. After this we will start the laser treatments for the redness around his lip. This whole process will likely take at least two years from start to finish. We will have to be extra careful to keep sunscreen on him, but of course we need to do that anyway. I will update when I know when our appt. is. Please pray that we are making the right decision to do this now and with Dr. Woolley. I am attaching a close up of Bryce's lip and some other cute pictures from the last 2 weeks.