MRI

First of all can I just say that I am absolutely in love with Cincinnati Children's. So far all of our experiences have been very smooth and amazing! We spent Monday night at Jordan's parents' house in Hamilton, OH. Papa Tom got Brody a HUGE stuffed lion. He loved it. We tried to get video of him laughing at it, but he kept staring into the camera when we would turn it on :)

We went to one of the Cincinnati Children's branches that was located in Liberty Township which is right down the road from them. Even though they had to sit in the waiting room the whole time, Grandma, Papa Brown, Grammy, and Papa Tom all stayed the whole time. We checked in and waited about 5 minutes to go back. Jordan and I got to go back with Brody. He fell asleep and took a short cat nap while his nurse, Tina, took his vitals and weight (21.56 lbs!). Then, he decided to wake up when they gave him the medicine to knock him out. Apparently it was cherry flavored, but Brody was not a fan of it. They used a syringe to slows put it in his mouth. He gagged and made faces like he did in the peaches video. Then, he screamed bloody murder for 25 minutes! The anesthesiologist said that after 30 minutes we would have to start an IV with more medicine to make him sleep. Tina finally wrapped Brody up in a warm sheet and held him tight untill he gave up and went to sleep. Then, Jordan went back to the waiting room with everyone else while I went to the MRI room with Brody. If you have ever had an MRI, you know how loud the knocking sound is. They put ear protection on Brody (I tried to assure them the loud noise would not hurt his hearing :) but it's part of protocol). The technicians first took scans of his brain. When those were done, they came in and put princess Leia looking things in his ears to take scans of the inner ear. He laid perfectly still and did great! He had the medicine at 9:10am an we got to recovery at 10:18am. Not too bad! Michelle was his nurse in the recovery room. Again, awesome staff. She assured me that Brody would sleep at least another hour so Jordan and I could go get some food from the cafe. She explained that they like for the kids to wake up on their own. Otherwise, they apparently go crazy cranky! Around 11:45, Michelle called my cell to let us know he was awake. She was feeding him a bottle of pydialite when we got back. He took his time stretching and continuing to wake up. Walking out, he was wide awake and took about an hour to fall back asleep. He slept for the ride home and has been up ever since! Clearly he didn't want to follow the "Your child will probably be groggy and sleep eight or more hours until the medication has worn off."

Ready to go! He wore his awesome dinosaur pajamas since they had to be snap and zipper free.

 

Quick cat nap on daddy. We were in the Lion King room (see all the sticks on the cabinets)!

 

Measuring his vitals. They ended up putting it on his toe since he was moving all over.

 

In the recovery room, Brody got to drink some Pedialyte.

 

The technicians said that Dr. Choo should get the scans within 48 hours. Then, they will call and set up an appointment for us to come back up and go over them with him. Hopefully, it won't take long to get an appointment to meet with Dr. Choo!