masto-wha?

This is a Solitary Mastocytoma that Aiden has on his right leg above his knee. It is spontaneously reacting in this photo taken at the aquarium the week before his pediatric dermatologist's appointment. It was the ideal appointment where they were able to identify it and tell us that it will just fade away before he's 3 or 4 years old. This little bugger wasn't there when he was born, and started growing and morphing. It was one of those questions I had for our doctor every time we saw her, and she finally agreed that it should be looked at last time when it was reacting with its bumpy redness. The Hasbro Children's hospital doctor used it as a teaching example for his residents, and asked me to email him the photos. It was funny when he first saw it he said he had to go get a high tech device to test it. Well, this had me a little nervous, but he came back in the room with a flat pencil eraser and started gently erasing it. I thought I was in some crazy Allie McBeal moment, but it turns out that he could get it to react just be gently rubbing on it with something with even texture. It reacted as it should and checked out as a textbook solitary mastocytoma. He started rattling this off very quickly, and luckily wrote it down for us. I'm just so glad that he was able to write something down and know exactly what it is... now we can just watch that little bugger fade away as Aiden gets older.