Monday night, when I was giving Ellie her bath, I noticed that she had a weird lump on her chest. It was very pronounced (about the size of a marbel) and hard. You can see it even through her onies. I asked Ken if he had noticed it over the weekend and he said no. So it was a new developement.

Back to the Doctors we went yesterday to have it checked out. Her doctor was a bit perplexed, it didn’t look or feel like anything that they would normally think it would be – too hard to be scar tissue, too round to be a bone. We were sent to the hopsital for a X-ray to see if that would tell us more. That didn’t help much. From the inside things look just fine, only different thing would be that one of the wires that held her sterum together after her open heart surgery was pointing forward instead of back. They think it might have been knocked against and caused a bruise because there is clearly something on the outside.

Ellie, the tooper she is, isn’t to bothered by it. Just a bit annoyed that everyone is touching it.

We talked to Dr. Marks (her cardio. in Boston) and he wants Dr. Asnes (her cardio here in New Haven) to just have a quick look at her to make sure it is nothing to be concerned about. We are waiting to see when Dr. Asnes can fit us into his schedule.

Since no one really knows what it is, Ken keeps calling it the alien. He says “Ellie has an alien growing out of her chest.”

Lets hope not…

When while we are freezing up here.  It has only been in the 40s and it has been raining alll day.  They even said the rain might turn into snow tonight.  It is supposed to be cold all weekend.

It is April right?