Surgery

Alanna had her appointment with Dr. Wood this morning. Over the years he's never been a proponent of surgery for her as long as the venous malformation stays about the same and doesn't change. This morning, he stated that he doesn't feel that way any longer. The malformation has changed and gotten larger as well as formed a more solid mass. He suggested that surgery rather than sclero treatments would be his suggested course of treatment.

We're waiting for the scheduling nurse to call and the surgery will likely be in the next month or two whenever they have availability.

It's not like we didn't know this would eventually be coming, but it's hard to hear. I think it makes it harder to know that we had just started to get comfortable with the watch and wait strategy and now have to switch our thinking over to being ok with surgery.

I do trust Dr. Wood and I know that she's in good hands, just wish I could trade places with her.