After quite a year of medical issues for Logan, related to high calcium levels in his body, he finally had the surgery that should correct it all! Parathyroid glands pull calcium from your bones for your body when it needs it, but Logan had a parathyroid gland with a benign tumor on it causing it to pull way too much calcium for his body. The result was a kidney stone last October, and had we not had the surgery, he could have had several more kidney stones, as well as bones being destroyed in his body. Other common symptoms of primary hyperparathyroidism (which is what Logan has that was corrected by surgery) are learning difficulties due to calcium build up on the brain, headaches and other body aches, and possible damage to organs if not corrected. We do not know at this time if the surgery will help Logan get rid of his headaches...it is just a wait and see time right now. Logan has also struggled in reading for the past years, but there is also no real way of knowing if that struggle is related to the disease or something Logan would have struggled with regardless of having hyperparathyroidism. Logan has come SO FAR with his reading skills, and we are not real concerned with that, but we HOPE that maybe he won't have his horrible headaches anymore!!
Anyhow, so the surgery was an incision through the front of Logan's neck (only about 4 cm wide) through with the doctor removed a swollen lymph node and the parathyroid gland that was enlarged. You have 4 parathyroid glands and the doctor thought he would need to take 3 of Logan's, but it was GREAT news to find out he only had to take one of them out!! Only taking one out made recovery from surgery that much easier, as well as possible complications in the future much less!! Here are a few pictures of our brave, healthy boy!
Logan before surgery - SO BRAVE! After surgery - not feeling too hot.
Day after surgery - feeling GREAT and ready to go HOME!
