Well, the face says it all! Lillian had her surgery for her pilomatrixomas Tuesday. Let me first start off by saying she was a champ! The day started off with me being very annoyed with the doctors and it didn't really improve as the day wore on. The morning of the day she was supposed to go in I STILL hadn't heard from the dermotology office, not even a confirmation phone call... I called first thing in the morning to make sure the surgery was still scheduled and if so, if there was anything I had to do in preperation. The receptionist I spoke to said it was all set and to just show up 15 min. early. Fine and dandy, right? Well, half hour later the Dr. himself calls me and is hemming and hawing about whether to go ahead without any sedation or to postpone it for a later date.. He says he is going to confer with some other Drs. and get back to me before lunch. Keep in mind her surgery is sheduled for 3:15 and he was suppposed to have already conferred the previous week! At 1:00 he finally calls back and wants to push ahead but Lillian has to be there an hour early to prep for the shot (they put this cream on that is suppose to numb the area where the shot is going to totally numb it... Personally, I don't think it worked..) So now I am running behind, it takes a half hour to get there, Mike is on his way home from work, I have to push up the time for Mikey's babysitter (thanks Michele!) and I have to wake him up from his nap. I am really aggravated at this point. Anyway, we get there fine, she gets her cream on and then we have to wait 2 hours before they get to her, they were running an hour behind... go figure. Through all this, Lillian is being a rock star, waiting patiently, She knows what is going to happen but she was so brave and such a big girl. When the time came for the shot, she did squirm and start to cry (Mom says it feels like a bee sting..) But we made it through and she let them continue and held as still as a statue the entire time! When it came time to try for the second bump, Lillian wanted nothing to do with it. First, she had been there now 3 hours and had already been holding so still for the first one, second, she now knows that the shot hurts like holy heck and did not want to go through it again. (can't say as though I blame her). Anyway, to make this very long story short, we ended up getting the bigger one on the back of her arm out and we are going to keep checking on the one on her forearm for growth. If it starts increasing in size, then I am going to go ahead and get it out before it gets bigger. A smaller scar is better than a big one! As it turns out, the pilomatrixoma that was just removed was a mass a little bigger than a nickel in size. It had grown very large in a very short amount of time. So once again she will have a scar about an inch and a half long, hopefully it will heal into a very narrow line and not be as thick. She is doing very well, no pain, however I did have to remove the steristrips holding it closed because she started to develop an allergic reaction to the adhesive... She woke up this morning complaining that her arm really itched and she started breaking out in hives around the strips.. The doc said to just remove it and I put some butterfly bandaids on instead and applied some cortizone cream. Hopefully that takes care of that problem! I just have to say I am very proud of Lillian, she was amazing through all this and she knows she still needs to have at least one more removed at some point. The poor girl! I feel really bad for her and I really, really hope she doesn't develop anymore of these!! Time will tell!
Well, the face says it all! Lillian had her surgery for her pilomatrixomas Tuesday. Let me first start off by saying she was a champ! The day started off with me being very annoyed with the doctors and it didn't really improve as the day wore on. The morning of the day she was supposed to go in I STILL hadn't heard from the dermotology office, not even a confirmation phone call... I called first thing in the morning to make sure the surgery was still scheduled and if so, if there was anything I had to do in preperation. The receptionist I spoke to said it was all set and to just show up 15 min. early. Fine and dandy, right? Well, half hour later the Dr. himself calls me and is hemming and hawing about whether to go ahead without any sedation or to postpone it for a later date.. He says he is going to confer with some other Drs. and get back to me before lunch. Keep in mind her surgery is sheduled for 3:15 and he was suppposed to have already conferred the previous week! At 1:00 he finally calls back and wants to push ahead but Lillian has to be there an hour early to prep for the shot (they put this cream on that is suppose to numb the area where the shot is going to totally numb it... Personally, I don't think it worked..) So now I am running behind, it takes a half hour to get there, Mike is on his way home from work, I have to push up the time for Mikey's babysitter (thanks Michele!) and I have to wake him up from his nap. I am really aggravated at this point. Anyway, we get there fine, she gets her cream on and then we have to wait 2 hours before they get to her, they were running an hour behind... go figure. Through all this, Lillian is being a rock star, waiting patiently, She knows what is going to happen but she was so brave and such a big girl. When the time came for the shot, she did squirm and start to cry (Mom says it feels like a bee sting..) But we made it through and she let them continue and held as still as a statue the entire time! When it came time to try for the second bump, Lillian wanted nothing to do with it. First, she had been there now 3 hours and had already been holding so still for the first one, second, she now knows that the shot hurts like holy heck and did not want to go through it again. (can't say as though I blame her). Anyway, to make this very long story short, we ended up getting the bigger one on the back of her arm out and we are going to keep checking on the one on her forearm for growth. If it starts increasing in size, then I am going to go ahead and get it out before it gets bigger. A smaller scar is better than a big one! As it turns out, the pilomatrixoma that was just removed was a mass a little bigger than a nickel in size. It had grown very large in a very short amount of time. So once again she will have a scar about an inch and a half long, hopefully it will heal into a very narrow line and not be as thick. She is doing very well, no pain, however I did have to remove the steristrips holding it closed because she started to develop an allergic reaction to the adhesive... She woke up this morning complaining that her arm really itched and she started breaking out in hives around the strips.. The doc said to just remove it and I put some butterfly bandaids on instead and applied some cortizone cream. Hopefully that takes care of that problem! I just have to say I am very proud of Lillian, she was amazing through all this and she knows she still needs to have at least one more removed at some point. The poor girl! I feel really bad for her and I really, really hope she doesn't develop anymore of these!! Time will tell!
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