A little off topic, but...

April 9, 2011

Has anyone's child (or anyone here...) ever had a skin biopsy done? Ella had

one done on Thursday. Her ped rheum was concerned about these bruise like skin

lesions she gets from time to time and said next time she got them he wanted

them biopsied. She hadn't gotten them since November (over Thanksgiving

actually) but they showed up on Tuesday. She went to see her ped (since the

rheum is almost 4 hours away) and she said she wasn't sure if they needed to be

biopsied because they didn't look like what the rheum thought they might be.

She called but couldn't talk to him at the time. She talked to another dr there

who said to do some blood work...so they did. Then they called Tuesday night to

tell me that she had talked to Ella's rheum and he wanted her to look at them

the next day and if they got darker they did need to be biopsied and he wanted

some more blood tests done. So we went back Wednesday and they drew more blood

and since the spots did get darker (and the ones that had gone away left a light

brown discoloration...) she said they did need to set up an appointment with a

dermatologist to have them biopsied. Thankfully they found a doctor who could

work her in the next day because the spots were already starting to go away.

They did it on Thursday and told me to keep it bandaged...a gauze pad with

antibiotic ointment (they gave her a prescription) and then wrap it with a gauze

roll from her foot to her knee (she has 4 stitches at the site and its just

under her knee). Well I can't keep the darn gauze on. I've got her whole leg

just about covered in tape trying to keep the gauze from falling/drooping.

She's not walking much (the dr said absolutely no running or rough playing for 2

weeks and to limit how much she walks). So I was wondering if maybe I could put

an ace bandage or something like that over the gauze. I wouldn't wrap it tight

or anything. I'm going to call on Monday and ask but of course its the

weekend... They said to make sure we kept her whole leg wrapped for the 2 weeks

until her appointment (they they'll decide whether they'll take them out then or

leave them another week... Hopefully they'll come out then!). Does anyone have

any experience and know if that would be okay? Thanks!

-Mom to five beautiful little girls!

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