This is a Spitz Nevus mole. Macy magically grew it on her eyelid the beginning of September and it kept getting bigger. I took her to her pediatrician who said that thing needed to come off because it could get huge. That would be gross. So off we headed to the plastic surgeon office. Who would have thought that my 3 year old would see a plastic surgeon before I would! We set up a surgery date with Dr. Bishop at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Once we arrived at the hospital they checked us in and gave us a room right away. We lucked out because, Michelle, our neighbor ended up being our nurse! She was great. After she checked Macy's vitals Macy turned to me and shut her eye and asked me if her red dot was gone yet. She asked this same question after each doctor of nurse came to visit us. She had no clue what she was in for. The Anesthesiologist came to check her heart and lungs and when he placed the stethoscope on her she asked, "Do you hear my beep, beep?". He thought that was just adorable so he let her listen to her own beep beep in the stethoscope.
He recommended that Macy be put under full Anesthesia with a breathing tube considering we were dealing with her eye, and she has a history of acid reflux, which would be really scary if it were to happen during surgery.
After waiting more then an hour, Macy was whisked away to be put to sleep. The nurses told me she did great and fell asleep quickly. She was gone for about an hour then they wheeled her in. I was so relieved to see her awake and well, even though it's just a silly mole being removed I was still nervous.
Macy started feeling really sick and lost all her color, and her body was covered in a rash. She had a little reaction to the Anesthesia and while she was feeling sick I was trying to comfort her and I was feeling as if I was going to pass out myself. In fact I had to put my head between my legs for a minute because I had tunnel vision and could feel myself starting to go. I could not be a nurse.
Once they got her feeling better I felt better myself. It was so hard to see her in pain and feeling sick, it just broke my heart, but I'm so glad we did this little surgery when we did and didn't put it off any longer. We got to go home 4 hours later, from the time we got there and we had to pick up Raegan from school. Macy was so excited to tell Raegan about her hospital adventure, but, Raegan was completely disgusted with Macy's eye and refused to even look at her. She said, "Mom, I just can't look at her, her eye gives me the creeps!" Raegan ended up facing the back of the car so she wouldn't have to look at Macy and then she asked Macy to get into the house first. Raegan went running full speed ahead into her room and slammed the door to escape her sister. I forced Raegan to look at it and told her the story of what the doctor did. After I explained the stitches were just pieces of string and they covered it in a glue then she was alright to be around her sister.
So far her eye is healing just the way it's suppose to. I'm anxious to see what it looks like when it's completely better.
