The Lump

Tyson has a "lump".  I noticed it on December 9th.  I looked at him and noticed the right side of his face was swollen.  Upon further examination, I found a lump.  It was big.  Like at least the size of a quarter.  I freaked a little bit.  This was a Sunday morning, and was also the middle of a Minnesota snow storm.  I called my RN sister in law, and she said she would probably take him in, but I convinced myself it could wait until Monday.  So, Monday morning I called his primary doctor and she was able to squeeze him in.  She checked it out and was pretty perplexed.  She did a few tests.  Strep, checked some blood levels, etc.  She found nothing other than the fact that he had some kind of infection.  She decided to put him on a ten day antibiotic and hope the "lump" would shrink.  It didn't. 
The next appointment included a call to another physician friend of our doctor's, a call to an ENT specialist at the Children's hospital, and a chest x-ray.  So, eventually, she referred us to an ENT doctor at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. 
Fast forward to New Year's Eve.  We took Tyson to his appointment at Children's and the doctor didn't seem overly concerned.  He explained (in a lot of big words) that this was probably an infection.  Something little kids pick up in the summer, but doesn't show up for a few months.  He thought it would most likely need to be surgically removed.  The first step was some blood work, then to schedule a CT scan.  The blood work was done that day.  The CT scan was today.  We never heard anything on the blood work, so I am assuming no news on that is good news. 
For the CT scan, we had to be in Minnetonka at 7:30 this morning.  The two big boys spent the night at my parents' house so that my mom could take them to daycare/school for us.  We got Tyson up early put Ice Age in the DVD player and we were on the road.  The actual scan was pretty quick.  He did need to be sedated, so that process took a little while.  Everything went well, and the results will be sent to his primary doctor and the doctor at Children's.  The nurse from this morning thought we would most likely hear something from Dr. Lander at Children's within one to two days.  Until then, we just hope for the best.