MRI

It was a long day at the hospital (9:30am-4:30pm), but we all survived. Eve did really well. They had her under anesthesia for nearly 4 hours. I guess the process took a very long time. Everyone at Athens Regional was fantastic. Very concerned about Eve and very attentive. She took a while waking up and was very groggy. She slept the whole way home. Poor thing was dehydrated from not being allowed to eat or drink since the night before and sucked down lots of pedialyte. I think the Docs and nurses all fell in love with her. The anesthesia Doc seemed so happy to carry her in to be put to sleep. He made a comment about it being so long since his boys were that size. And of course she was all drunk from the sedative they gave her, so she was snuggly and floppy.

I was able to get a copy of the results and a disc of the images so that we can take them to future Doctors (CHOP and/or the orthopedic Dr.). I read the report and they found nothing. No masses, no tumors, no abnormality. We'll see what the neurologist says when he looks at the films. So that's good....but where does it leave us?

We are meeting on Sunday with the PT and developmental specialist (we were supposed to try to meet today, but the MRI took too long). They redid Eve's evaluation in preparation to appeal the Deeming waiver denial. They don't want us to read it until they explain it to us. That freaks me out. Tracey mentioned that Eve is doing worse in some aspects than she was a year ago. That doesn't make me feel good. Anyhow, I'll know more about it on Sunday.

So, here are two moments of levity for the day:
1. Jim fell asleep in the family waiting room and started snoring. Loudly. It was pretty funny. I had to keep waking him up as people looked at him. Then I had to wake him again when the Doc came in to tell us Eve was in recovery - Jim told him that his own recovery from anesthesia was going well.
2. Jim got in trouble. The pull of the pulse ox (sp? that thing they put on your finger to test oxygen in blood) was too great. He had to put it on his finger when the nurses weren't looking. Of course when he took it off he set off all kinds of alarms because the machine thought he was dying. I made him go tell the nurses what he had done. His face was so red!! I just laughed and laughed.