Monday October 3, 2011

Good news keeps rolling in.  Elaina was released from the hospital late on Friday night September 30th.  The liver specimen was sent to the Center for Liver Diseases in Virginia.  The pathologist there concurred with original diagnosis.  The name for the condition was changed from hemangioendothelioma to infantile hemangioma.  The tumor is benign which is the best outcome we could hope for.  The tumor is located on lobe 1 of the liver and that lobe is the most complicated so there will be many examinations and opinions by the experts before any course of treatment will be determined.  The surgeon stated that  it may even shrink on its own so it will need careful oversight.  He even stated that had the lesion been on any other lobe of the liver he would have removed it during the exploratory surgery.  Elaina has a scar that runs transverse across her abdomen following the rib cage line.
So followers, keep tuning in and I will try to write Monday to Friday with weekends off.