Simon 6 month update

Yesterday we saw our primary doctor and Simon had his 6 month regular check up. He weighed 19 lbs, 8 ozs. His height was 28.5 inches! That put him in the 73% and 96% for the percentiles. A big fella!

He was a pretty happy guy for the rest of the evening-even after his shots, but today he has been more crabby.

Today he had a sonogram to check on the mass on his adrenal gland. We were going in with high hopes that it was gone and they could not even find it. All the times we have been in since he was born, it has continued to get smaller, and this would have been 3.5 months since we have seen it.

Unfortunately, it had not gotten any smaller. But it didn't really seem like it had gotten any bigger either. So that was definitely good news. And everything else appeared well from the quick over view. It was just disappointing to hear that it was still there. Of course God still has a plan for our little guy and we are still hoping for the complete resolution of this tumor!

The sonogram technician did her thing, then took the images to the pediatric radiologist to look at. After awhile, they both came back and he wanted to look at it in real time. Since the mass is pretty small it was hard to get a real good look at it. He told me that in the first images he thought that it showed it was a little smaller but he wasn't sure that she had gotten all of it into the measurement. So when they measured again, he thought that it looked like it had not changed. Or if it showed a little bigger it was not significant and possibly because of the way it was measured or what not. It was about 1.5cm by 1.1cm.  He said he would have to take out the images from the last time and compare them.

I'm not sure if the pediatric oncologist will call or our regular doctor will call. But hopefully sometime in the next couple days, they will call and let us know a little more and when they would like to have Simon back in for another sonogram.

I asked the radiologist if he had ever seen one of these tumors where it gets smaller and then bigger. He said that of just the few that he has even personally dealt with, they have all gotten smaller and then gone away. None of them have gotten smaller and then bigger. But he said he has not personally seen very many because it is rare to even see these this early on.

Thank you all for your kind words and for praying for us!