The last two days were spent back at Children’s hospital and don’t get me wrong, I think Children’s is an awesome place, but I hate going there.
On Tuesday the doctors injected Lexi with iodine and it took them 6 tries and 4 different locations to hit a vain. I hate hearing her cry in pain and it makes me feel extremely helpless.
My wife can’t handle it, so I stay with Lexi and try to keep her calm. Good thing she won’t remember all of this or she would associate me with pain and would most likely be afraid of me.
Both of her wrists and feet are bruised up from being poked so much. They almost had to use a vain that is in her head for the injection. They had to take blood from the same spot last week and it sort of freaked me out. Needles don’t belong in your head.
Today they performed a test similar to a CAT scan called a MBIG. It took around an hour or so once the test was started and she slept right through it.
It’s amazing to me how small things, like the above will turn into an all day event, but at least we get to come home at night and sleep in our own bed with our baby.
Tomorrow we have another appointment, so we can go over the results from today’s test and they will hopefully tell us what the plan of attack is for the mass. Hopefully they won’t need to remove it, but if they do, it will most likely be done on Friday and she’ll be back in the Children’s NICU for two weeks to a month recovering.
So far she has been the best baby. Eating like a pig, sleeping through the night and she barely cries when she’s awake. I’m sure things will change soon enough, so we better enjoy it while we can.
I’ll update the blog as soon as we find out what the mass is tomorrow and what they plan to do about it
No comments:
Post a Comment