CT Results

Sorry I wanted until Monday to post about Friday-but we were exhausted.
So Thursday night-Gray could only have formula until 4 AM and then clear liquids from 4 AM-8 AM on Friday morning. I woke up with a fever around 2:00 AM-and then Rob woke Gray up around 3:15 AM to give him a bottle. We were hoping that he would fall right back to sleep after the bottle-and that sure didn't happen. Since I was already up-not feeling well-I brought Gray into the family room around 4 AM to play and watch cartoons-thinking that might work. Uhh...no. Around 5:30 AM he started rubbing his eyes-so we slept for about 30 mins. Not being able to eat didn't seem to really bother him-which was a good thing. So we were up from about 2 AM-3:30 PM. We were exhausted!

We left for Children's Mercy around 9:15 for his 10:00 appointment. Right when we walked into CMH-my eyes started to fill up with tears. It is a fantastic hospital-but just being there made me nervous. We went to the radiology department where Gray got his hospital bracelet on his little ankle-and we waited. They called us back right at 10. We had Nurse Bobbi-who was fabulous. We went into the sedation room-where there were 3 beds and that was about it. Bobbi was able to explain how Gray was going to be getting 3 different meds-and how the scan was going to go, etc. He wouldn't have needed to be put under if he didn't need to have dye ran through an IV-but he did-so he had to be a big boy. All the nurses came by and held him and played with him talking about how cute he was, etc.

So it was IV time-and I of course-had to stand outside. There were 3 nurses and Rob holding onto Gray to put the IV in his little baby foot. I was balling outside-and another nurse walked by and said "I bet your baby is getting an IV"-ok-so good-I wasn't the first mom to make a fool of herself. I could hear Gray screaming behind the door-and I didn't know where to go. If I walked 2 feet one way-I would walk into the ER Dept-and I for sure didn't want to see what was in there-and then 2 feet the other way-another baby was screaming her head off-so I locked myself in the bathroom for about 10 mins-and then was told they were done. I went in and snuggled my baby. And then it was go time.

Nurse Bobbi showed us where the CT Scan was going to take place-and she had his binkie and blankie with her and promised she would stay with him the entire time. The scan only took about 3 mins-but then we had to wait an hour for him to wake up. So Rob and I waited in the waiting room-talking with other parents. Around 12:15-Rob called the nurses to check on our guy. They came and got us-and we went back into the sedation room. And there was Gray-laying on his side-sound asleep. And then he all of a sudden woke up-and was super happy! Nurse Bobbi gave him some diluted apple juice-which of course he thought was fabulous. Bobbi said that he would be groggy all day and want to sleep ALL day and night-so we were really excited about taking a LONG nap when we got home. Right when we were getting ready to leave-Gray started talking and laughing and squirming around. He was acting like he was drunk-and we think he was having the total opposite reaction then what he was supposed to!

We went to Children's Mercy South to meet with Dr. Jiang-and the entire way Gray was laughing, singing, definitely NOT sleeping. We checked in-and the nurses even said that he was acting totally opposite of what other kids do after sedation. Our kids special! So here comes Dr. Jiang-and he pulls up Gray's scan. And the results are...it's a normal cyst!! Yahoo!! So that means a normal surgery-since it's not inter-cranial! Yay!!! Rob and I were so overwhelmed with joy-we didn't know what to say! But the pictures were pretty cute-you could see his binkie in his mouth-and all of his teeth that will eventually come in.

We are scheduled for surgery on February 4, 2010. We don't know if we will have to stay over night or not-it just depends on how he does with the sedation. And as Dr. Jiang said-it seems as if he handled the sedation just fine--so hopefully we'll get to come home.

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for our little guy. It was rough on Rob and I-but we realize that this probably won't be the last time that we will be worried about Gray-and we know it won't get easier-but we can handle it.