David Jeffery Seveland

Hi everyone.  Well I am back with an update on David.  We have had a couple more appointments with 2 more to follow shortly.  I just wanted to fill in everyone on his latest appointment with the Orthopedist.

Well David is still growing.  He is roughly 41.5 inches tall and 41.5 lbs.  He is a tall and heavy little man.  He has a small leg length discrepancy(lld) at this time of 1.1cm.  When he is in a growth spurt his lld usually gets u...

          Well it's time for a new year.  These last 7 months I have been kind of absent from this site.  I needed a break and I think I'm good now.  We are starting our rounds of appointments for this year.  David has come a long way this year.  He goes to the elementary school for speech one day a week.  He has come so far.  We can actually have a conversation with him now.  He is using 4 words in a sentenc...

Well, I finally got some sort of an explanation about the pathology results.  The simplest explanation is that it is some sort of a Lymphatic malformation.  It is a group of enlarged lymph nodes with extra lymphatic tissue present.  It also has enlarged lymphatic vessels running through it.  We were told that this kind of a malformation is the most common type found in children.  However, it was almost twice the size of the standard malformati...

Hi all.  We finally got pathology back.  I do not know what it means yet but I will share what I do know with you all.  Well we have heard it is completely Benign.  YEAH.  That gave us all a great feeling of relief.  Now for the stuff I don't know.

The report states as follows "Benign reactive follicular and paracortical lymphoid hyperplasia with associated ectatic lymphatic vessels."  I have an appointment with our pediatrician to hopeful...

Hey everybody!  Sorry I haven't been on and updated in a while.  Things have been busy and with all the stress I have avoided the computer.  Well I am back and over the next week or so I will be adding new pictures, updated information and new blogs.  This will just be a sort of update since march with more info to come throughout the week.

Well, since the last blog David has found a vascular team.  We went to Norfolk to meet with them in the beginn...