
Hi everyone. You are not going to believe what happened at Tobias's Paediatric appointment yesterday.
When Tobias was born he came out with a lump on his head. They were a bit worried about it so just to make sure everything was ok they gave it an ultrasound. The lump was not attatched to or extended through Tobias's skull so all of the doctors and specialists labelled it simply a "strawberry" which occurs when during labour the baby is sitting on and putting a lot of pressure on the cervix. sort of like if you stuck the end of a vaccuum cleaner on your head and left it sucking there for too long. Strawberries are very common and they usually "deflate" inbetween 6 months and 2 years. Well Tobias's lump had already deflated, infact, it had become an indent on his head. And the skin in that indent was different to the rest of his skin. It is hard, stiff and a different cloudy white colour.
When the paediatrition looked at Tobias's head yesterday he was quite shocked and told me that the bump clearly was not a "strawberry" as everyone had thought. It was infact a growth, a very very rare deformity and now as a result, Tobias would be stuck with this indent all his life. But, it would be dangerous to leave it as it is because that skin in his indent is missing alot of vital pigments (it is missing all muscle, fat and pigments that regular skin has). And as such, that patch of skin is like a ticking time bomb for sun/skin cancer. So Tobias will have to have plastic surgery to get the indent of skin removed. He must get it done now as a baby because it will just get extremely complicated the older he gets. So, after the operation he will be left with a level head but a lifelong scar. It was such a shock!! :(
My paediatrition is going to write me a referral to a plastic surgen so we can start the ball rolling on getting this fixed as soon as possible. I'll check back with you later but right now Tobias is getting into the recycling basket in the kitchen! xoxo
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