Laparoscopy

We went to the lake house for labor day. We had started noticing some blood in Aiden's stool before this weekend, but it had gone away. Then we noticed it again on Sunday so called the doctor's after hours line and they said we should bring him to an emergency room. We took him to Children's Hospital emergency room where they did a physical exam and felt a bump next to his kidney. They did an ultrasound because they thought the kidney was infected and found a mass next to his kidney, but not involving any organs. Luckily it wasn't a tumor, but they were thinking some kind of cyst. It was the size of a golf ball and we met with a surgeon, Dr. Saito, who was amazing who explained what it was to us and that it would need to come out. It was a blessing in disguise that there was blood in the stool or else we might not have found this cyst. The blood in the stool was totally unrelated and just a sore that was bleeding, it actually was gone by the following day. We went ahead and scheduled the surgery for September 8th since I was still on maternity leave until the 12th. Dr. Saito wasn't sure if she would be able to get it laparoscopically or if she would have to make an incision to get it out since it was pretty big for his body size. Jeff and I were pretty nervous since he would have to have anesthesia and we didn't know if he would have to have a big incision cut into him. Thanks be to God, she did not have to cut into him, but was able to get almost everything with the scope. She removed 95% of the cyst, the last 5% she didn't get out because it was in the back muscle and she didn't want to hurt that. So the cyst was sent to pathology and it came back as just a vascular invasion. Since it was a vascular invasion, Dr. Saito does not think it will come back. We will follow up with her in 6 months and with an ultrasound and then at a year and then only follow-up again if Aiden is having abnormal symptoms.