Our visit to the plastic surgeon

I guess I never really posted about this. Keeghan's medical condition is very outwardly obvious. Her hand is very swollen, but honestly, we don't really notice it. It certainly doesn't stop her from doing ANYTHING and it doesn't cause her pain. Obviously, we're very thankful for this. Anyway, our pediatrician really had no clue what to do with her at all so he referred us to a pediatric plastic surgeon at Dartmouth. We went up there on January 26th. The Dr was great. He has a terrific bedside manner and didn't mind that all 6 of us piled into the room : ) He looked Keeghan over, measured her swelling, and had some pictures taken. Then he started talking about treatment/etc. He commented that there is a possibility her condition is vascular as opposed to lymphatic but we're all pretty sure it's lymphatic. He does want to do a MRI at some point to be sure it's lymphatic, but being as that requires an anesthetic we're going to wait. It won't change the course of treatment so it's not something that we need to do quickly. From there we were given the names of some people here in Nashua who can measure Keeghan for compression bandages and get us going with massage therapy. Basically, this condition is rare and no one can really tell us what will help, how much it will help, or how Keeghan's condition will progress. We are pretty confident that with proper management she will do well and possibly get to a point where she will not need compression bandages all the time. Only time will tell.