I have SOOOO many pictures from Christmas to look at and edit. I found 3 of the girls that I thought were very cute. I'll add more later. The picture with Abby and Kate together in their pj's is very cute. When we had Abby, I wanted to start a family tradition of sorts. Michael and I thought that it would be really neat to give Abby a gift on Christmas Eve night for her to open. The gift is the same every year...pajamas! I love pajamas and so does Abby! I look forward to shopping for her special "Christmas pajamas" every year. After she opens her present, she can put them on to wear for Christmas morning! (I have pre-washed them of course!) I love our little tradition and I got to carry it on with Kate. Abby and Kate had matching (different colors, same design) p.j.'s this year!
On to Kate's arm...a couple of months ago Kate got what appeared to be a pimple on her arm. I didn't think to much about it. Then it didn't go away and it started to get bigger. I was going to wait until her next well-baby checkup to talk to the Dr. about it. Well....I was talking about it at work and someone said it could be a staph infection. I quickly made a Dr.'s appointment and we went in. The Dr. said that it wasn't a staph infection, but he wasn't quite sure what it was. He made us an appointment with a derematologist. People have said it looked like a wart, mole, etc.... I wasn't too worried. We went to the appointment yesterday and the doctor at first kind of said hummm....and wellllll....I believe it is juvenile xanthogranuloma or JXG. He started to explain it, but all I heard was tumor and could lead to problems with her eyes. I immediately started to cry. When he saw me crying he said that he didn't mean to worry me! I wanted to say "Well what did you expect??!!!" He said that it is very rare and that he has only seen 1 other case of it. He left the room to go read up some more on it. He came back with better news. It probaly won't affect her eyes because the JXG is not on her eyes it's on her shoulder and the tumor is benign. He brought in another dr to look at it. This dr has seen them before and he said that it is most likely JXG but not to worry. We have to have it removed. Since she is so young they can't just do a local anathesthia and then cut it off. We are meeting with a surgeon on Friday to see what and how this needs to be done. I'm very nervous but I'm thankful it's nothing too seriously bad. I've done a lot of reading up on this in the past 24 hours and I feel a lot more better about it now than I did. Unless the JXG was on or IN her eye, she will not have to worry about her eyes. The dr still wants us to go and take her to the eye doctor to be on the safe side.
Please keep her in your prayers. I don't want them to have to put her to sleep to take this thing off, but if that is what has to happen then we will do it. We've prayed over Kate and I have complete trust and faith that God is watching over and protecting her. Our church has been handing out prayer cloths and Kate has one under her mattress that she is sleeping on this very second.
I'll update everyone after Friday!
Here is Kate's JXG!!! :(
TWINKIES!!!
