So now we knew there was something in Rachel’s brain (well, something that didn’t belong there anyway), but we weren’t sure what to call it. Doctors seemed to like calling it a tumor, but we did NOT like that word. Usually we just called it a lesion.

When we asked Dr. Cheyette what “it” was, she said that there was no way of knowing without taking it out, and that it was most likely a dysplasia. This is just a general term for something didn’t develop properly. In other words, it was probably something that had been in her brain since she was inside her Mama.

One day Rachel was trying to remember the word “dysplasia”, and she called it a displosion. The perfect word! A dysplasia that had exploded into our lives. A Displosion.

Now you know.