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We have a diagnosis

Beautiful little Tabitha has officially been diagnosed with a

BIG HEAD!

I cannot tell you how many tears of relief we have cried since finding this out.... on top of all those tears of stress......arghhh......

My little gorgeous girly has inherited the Jones Noggin, the one which she shares with both of her parents & her brothers, the one which has grown much more quickly than the rest of her body but THANK GOODNESS does not indicate anything sinister!

To give you some more background, I'd been aware of her growing head size for the last few months.... and then when we took her to a Chiropractor last week he made some comments which I knew meant he was concerned about Hydrocephalus.

I ended up being so worried that I took her to the Pediatrician, telling him "I know I"m being paranoid BUT, can you check". Well, he checked, and looked at me with a very grave face and said "you're not being paranoid, this needs to be looked at". He said her head had grown not on a curve along with her age, but almost up in a vertical the amount it had jumped and that while he really hoped it was nothing we MUST get it checked because this was not 'normal'

She had to have a CT scan so we were sent to Childrens Hospital in Seattle (astonishing place , like visiting a theme park with car parks named after animals and the whole place extremely new, clean & shiny). They saw her very quickly and strapped her onto the CT Scanning bed and swaddled her so that she couldn't move. I was allowed to stay with her. She cried :-( but it was over very quickly. They then gave us a 'quick read' which was no more than saying we could leave... which G said would be positive otherwise they would not have let us go, whereas I was more pessimistic..... but anyway, we went and sat biting our nails and feeling sick with terror until the Pediatrician finally called at 6pm.

He told me straight away that I could relax and that there was no further need for worry :-) He said that the scan had shown that she had a prominent somethingwhichmeanshead and slightly enlarged ventricles, neither of which meant anything other than being bigger than average, and that she is a perfect healthy little girl.

OMG I am so relieved.

Seriously though, I really hope we get a break from stress & worry soon? I can't take much more.

Posted by katie at March 8, 2008 03:05 PM