Samantha had a vascular abnormality in her knee. Which is a cluster of blood vessels that have formed wrong and just keep growing more vessels. She had the 1st surgery in November and this was her 2nd & final surgery (at first they told us from 2-5 surgeries!). She did awesome, but had a hard time with the IV she cried. They just give her a sleepy medicine and pain medicine so she will stay still, and then they inject dye in her knee under ultrasound they can see the cluster of veins. They then inject a solution which turns to foam after it goes in, and that fills the vessels with foam and no more blood. As the foam dissolves away so do the blood vessels. It takes the foam 6-8 weeks to dissolve. It is a pretty easy procedure, and if you have to do it multiple times this is the way to go. We are glad to be done, and we just have to watch her knee to see if it comes back again! Thankfully she had excellent doctors and also wonderful new procedures which make it so they don't have to surgically remove the vessels.
2 comments:
wow! You're a trooper! I almost cried seeing her laying there. I can't imagine how hard it must be to watch you "baby" lay there like that. Your a strong mom and a very good one too!!!
I am so glad she doesn't need to go through it again. Tell Sam I loved the blog all about her.
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