Eric

Eric has been having headaches for the last

few weeks. When we were in Springfield I

had to take him to the ER it got so bad. He

had another really bad headache the night

of the wedding so as soon as we got home I

took him to our regular doctor. She wanted

him to go see a neurologist at Children's

Mercy and sent us home to wait for them

to call and said in the mean time just take

him to the Children's ER if he had another

one.

Tuesday night he had another bad

headache so I took him to Children's at

about 1:00am. They gave him some pain

medicine and finally got the headache stopped

and sent him for a CT scan. While we were

waiting for the scan results I paid our copay and

got ready to go home. I figured they would

come in and say that they didn't see

anything and would send the scans to neurology

and we would follow up with them.

Unfortunately that did not happen. The doctor

came in and said that they had found a

large arachnoid cyst on his left frontal

lobe. He told me that they are normally

nothing to worry about but this one was

very large and they were going to admit him

to the hospital and we would see a

neurosurgeon in the morning.

Needless to say both Eric and I were

terrified! I called Paul and told him what

was going on then tried to keep calm until

morning.

The neurosurgeon finally came in and said

that all most all of the time someone who

has one of these cysts was born with it

and the normally do not grow or cause

problems and they never remove them

unless they do cause problems and he

didn't think that the cyst was the cause of

the headaches. Then he ordered an MRI

and referred us to a neurologist.

The neurologist didn't think that the

cyst had anything to do with the

headaches either but they are going to

watch it for changes. The doctors think

that he is just having migraines and the

cyst in incidental. We finally got

released from the hospital about 6:00

that night with naproxen for the

headaches. He is still having headaches

about every other day

so now we just wait and see

what happens...

The cyst is on the left MRI images are mirrored.

At least we do have proof now that he does

have a brain. He does have funny looking

eyes though.