Brave

Back in November we noticed that Quinn had a bluish/purple bump on the outside of her left cheek that wouldn't seem to go away. It looked like a bruise but when you touched it was like a hard ball. Quinn's pediatrician suspected it to be a polyp but suggested we keep an eye on it for a month or so to see if it went away. It didn't go away and seemed to get a little darker in color so she then suggested we see a Pediatric Plastic surgeon. After meeting with him he suspected it to be a Pilomatrixoma, or to the non-doctors a benign tumor. We would only be 100% sure what it was if we surgically removed it. This brings us to last week. Quinn was scheduled to have surgery on March 4 so my mom made flight arrangements to be here and help out with Joshua and Quinn after the surgery. Well my Mom arrives and then the day before Quinn's surgery we got a call from her doctor to let us know that her surgery was going to be rescheduled for today, March 12 due to an emergency surgery that came up. So on the bright side of thins we were able to spend more time doing fun stuff with my Mom but also at the same time I felt so bad that she traveled here only to have it rescheduled!

So today was our surgery day and I really can't even believe just how BRAVE Quinn was! She was such a little trooper and didn't shed one single tear. She tightly clung onto a stuffed bunny that was given to her by her buddy Easton for her surgery day and rolled down the hallway on her bed to the surgery room as we watched her off. Not a fun thing for a parent to go through but just another reminder at how precious life is and how truly blessed we are to have such a sweet gift from God. Here are a couple pictures of her post-op. She was a little out of sorts but not too disoriented to remember her true love for popsicles.