Today, I had yet another doctor appointment. While I was sitting in the room talking to the nurse, she told me news that just about made my heart sink. She was telling me the results of my ultrasound. I was expecting to hear her say something like "everything looks fine." That was sort of the case. The nurse had said to me "the baby's heart and lungs look fine. His cyst looks fine....." That had stopped me in my tracks. I thought for a second maybe she had grabbed someone elses chart by mistake. When I asked her about the cyst, she said "they didn't tell you?" I of course told her no. I had immediately started panicking. She then told me that they found a cyst on one my baby's kidneys and that my doctor would talk to me more about it.
As I waited....trying not to panic I thought I'd try to distract myself by reading my book. I couldn't concentrate. I swear I must have read the same page about five times. It seemed like an eternity of waiting for my doctor. When she finally came in, she started telling me that "some babies get cysts in/on their brains....." WHAT?!?!?!? Now my baby has a cyst on his brain????? I told her the nurse told me it was on one of the kidneys. My doctor looked at the chart again and confirmed it was on the brain. She said he had a choroid plexus cyst. Now my concern was verging on hysteria. I think my doctor could tell I was just about to loose it and start freaking out, because she then continued on to say that she had "seen this in several babies. Since the technology now is so advanced that now they are able to pick up on things more than they used to. Since he doesn't show any other abnormalities, I wouldn't worry about it."
Today, my baby's heartbeat was good and strong, and my doctor said I was measuring perfectly and my weight was good. She also told me that her daughter also had cysts and she is just fine now. She said some babies grow out of the cysts and they think that all babies have them as kind of a developmental type thing, but they quickly grow out of it.
When I got home, I was still a little nervous to tell Brian. When I told him I could tell he was just as alarmed as I was at first. The first thing he did was look at the ultrasound again. He then decided to look up choroid plexus cysts on Wikipedia. As we were reading up on it, it said that most babies grow out of them by week 32. We are both confident our little man is going to be okay.
I have another ultrasound scheduled in two weeks to make sure everything is okay. I will keep you all posted on what we find out. If you all could just keep us in your prayers, we'd really appreciate it!
4 comments:
I am glad that your handleing this very well. I will pray for your little man. I hope it will go away. Also thanks for the comment. Trevor doesn't have a facebook account or a blog and it would be really hard to find me. Because ther are a lot of Jefferys. He is also dumb on the computer. Not very smart. But thanks for warning me!
Take care and you are in my thoughts for your little man. Everything will be okay!
I would have been freaking out too. Try not to dwell on it too much, because like you said, it'll probably be alright.
Sometimes I think it is better to not know about stuff until after the storm has cleared, just for peace of mind. When I was prego with Palmer we found out a month before he was due that he only had two vessels instead of three in his umbilical cord, which can lead to a lot of problems. Luckily by then, they could see all those possible problems didn't happen and everything had developed normally. I hope the same goes for you little guy.
That sounds kind of scary! But I am glad you are feeling okay about it. I'm sure he will be okay. It would probably help to get a blessing.
wow, scary stuff! Hang in there. We'll keep you in our prayers.
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