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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like a couple of the PPs, one of my children had a hemangioma as a baby-- a serious one that deformed a facial feature.  It eventually required surgery, and it now looks much better but is still somewhat noticeable and might need a followup surgery when older.  At the time I knew it wasn't great, and random people would often ask me about it (never in a mean way, just curious, especially kids)-- but looking back at the photos now I'm struck by how much worse it was than I thought at the time!  I guess that protective motherhood gene had really kicked in for me.

Now my younger kid has been lovely from an early age and we're often stopped in the store by comments like what a gorgeous baby, etc.  It always makes me feel a bit awkward when my older kid is there, as if they'll remember/realize there's a difference in how people have treated them.  I always try to make up for it with my own compliments.[/quote]

PP here with the son with a PWS.

My son's PWS covers most of one of his cheeks.  It is flat, not raised like a hemangioma, but it is a dark red.    It does extend very close to his eye, so we are very lucky that he does not have Sturge Weber Syndrome.   I read up on it a lot and have heard that as people with PWS age, it can get thicker and raised and cause bleeding.   We tried laser treatments when he was very young.   He had to go under General Anesthesia  for the treatments.   Then we moved here to the DC area when he was 2, and the new hospital said they don't do GA for the laser treatments.   It was awful, he was in so much pain.   I couldn't put him through that again.   It's been several years since his last laser treatment and I've thought of checking back to see if they have changed their policy about GA.

When he was a newborn, I went into a coffee house that I had been a "regular" at for a couple years.   The owner saw him and gasped and said "Oh my god!   What happened to his face?"   :cry: 
I stopped going to that coffee house after that.[/quote]

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