If there was such an award...I should be the first recipient. Poor Emma made a terrible trip to the doc on Wednesday. Well, this post should really just start from the beginning...
Emma was born with a hemangioma on her private area. It is rather big. The docs in NC said that as she grows it will eventually go away and that it does not hurt her at all. BOY...were they wrong. Last weekend, we started noticing that Em seemed to be in pain. She cried in the bathtub...which she NEVER does. She would scream during diaper changes. At first we thought this was just another phase...I mean she never really enjoyed diaper changes anyways. It's more like WWF wrestling than sweet, relaxing time with Mommy (or Daddy). Wednesday I had had enough. I was tired or wrastling (country talk :)) with the bear and I was SURE that somthing was wrong with that darn hemangioma.
To make a long story short, poor baby Emma has been suffering. The hemangioma has ulcerized. (or developed an ulcer and then opened up to become an open wound.) There is nothing that can be done until the wound heals. We were given antibiotic cream to apply three times daily and told to come back for more torture a recheck in a week. Hopefully the wound will heal and they will inject some steriods to shrink the thing. Maybe Em will come home from the doc on Tuesday with large muscles and a deep voice. :) J/K
Please pray that we can take care of this without surgery. That is a possibility. But until then, I should be given the bad mommy award of the century b/c after all the pain of the ulcerized hemangioma, I subjected her to not one but two flu shots. Terrible, no good, very bad Mommy indeed.
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