Well about a month ago Dave and I noticed a dark colored spot on Carter's foot. I thought it was just a bruise but a couple of weeks later the bruise had developed into a small bump. And then a couple of weeks after that I noticed that it had developed into a rather large discolored bump. It seemed to be growing really fast. So, on Macie's birthday when we went to see Steve and Cheri I decided to ask Cheri and Sherri what they thought about it. Since they are both nurses. They both said that they thought it was worth having Carter's Doctor take a look at. So the next Monday I took Carter to see his Doctor and he wasn't sure what it was so he referred us to Dr. James a Podiatrist. A couple of days later we had an appointment with Dr. James. His first reaction was that he wasn't sure what it was but he called it a Dermatofibroma and he wanted to try some cream to see if we could shrink it. So we made an appointment to come back in 3 weeks. Well, 3 weeks later it had only gotten bigger. So the doctor told us that he recommended taking the lump out. He wanted to Biopsy it and the skin around it. That doctor's appointment was on Tuesday of this last week and we were scheduled to go into surgery on Friday. This seemed to all be happening so fast. It was a little hard to process everything, Although, the more I think about that the better it was that I didn't have a lot of time to sit around and think about it.
This is the night before surgery. Carter and Macie fell asleep on the floor. I was trying to keep Carter up as long as possible because he couldn't have anything to eat the next morning and I wanted him to sleep in as much as possible.
Carter was a great patient. All the nurses absolutely loved him. He seemed a little nervous but he was so brave. He didn't even fuss when all the nurses got him ready for surgery.
Here is a picture of the lump on the day of the sugery.
Carter loved the bed. He thought it was so cool. He kept going up and down, up and down.
Before he went to the pre-op room they gave him a little medicine to help him relax and honestly Dave and I couldn't stop laughing at how loopy he was. The surgery lasted a little over an hour and then we went to a room for recovery. The surgery went really well. The doctor said that he got it all out and he had sent samples to Pathology to be tested. I am releaved the surgery went so well. Now I am just anxious to get the results.
Grandma Jan came over after we got home from the hospital and brought Carter a new Dinosaur book with cardboard Dinosaurs to build.
He has had a lot of visitors and gifts from people. Grandma "T" and Grandpa came over and brought Carter a new Dinosaur that walks and roars. And Collin, Sarah, and Brandon came over with a get well monkey.
We have been eating a lot of popcicles and watching a lot of movies these last couple of day. Today has been the roughest day so far. Carter has not walked on his foot at all. He says it hurts really bad. We did give him a bath today and I think that helped make him feel a little better. We will keep you posted on his progress and the results of the biopsy.
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