Phew, made it out!

The weather reports had been calling for really bad weather in Southern Ohio and Indiana today, so i was pushing to get out as soon as possible this morning. ENT came by at 6:15, God love them (although we love Dr. Nick, so it's not too bad), and Dr. Patel and Lisa came by around 8:30. We were out by 10, and home by 3! We hit one spot of hail and rain so hard you couldn't see, but other than that it wasn't too bad. Well, lo and behold there were multiple tornadoes and tornado warnings along about 50 miles of our drive come 3-6pm. They even went into tornado warning mode at the hospital, i've heard!

They pulled out lots of doxy this morning (hooray, it stayed in!) and put on a steri strip. He looks great. We know it doesn't always help the first time, but so far it's good. We have to be patient and not too excited, it could return.

The whole jaw drama hasn't come to a conclusion, and that's not a happy place for me to be. After seeing the MRI, we were a little blown away by how bad it is. His right mandible is up in his cheek. Really. What's left of the mass is resembles a sponge, not really microcysts like i had imagined. Superminimicrocysts, maybe? The space in his right cheek is full of LM, no wonder the muscles are bound up in it. The jaw splitting is off the table, really. Maybe in years when we've exhausted other options, because it's a terrible operation with very little hope of solving the problem. The muscle cutting is on the table, and the surgeon said it's almost inevitable, more a matter of time.

Here's a graphic. The muscle that may need to be removed is the masseter. You can probably gather it's rather important.


Oh,and i didn't mention that his tonsils and adenoids are HUGE. Yeah, we had a coblation tonsillectomy in December. They're going to have to cut them out, someday.

Good news is, Micah's doing great. :)