The MRI

Addisons MRI was on March 2 and everything went really well. We still have not heard about the blood work, but I am sure everything went fine there to. I guess I should tell why Addison had to have an MRI for those of you who do not know. She has got a genetic disorder, and she is underweight (sort of,) she is not so much underweight its mostly that she cant maintain her weight. She started off at birth at the 50% and has been going down ever since. At 6 months she was in the 25%, 9 months she was in the 5%, and now for 12 months (even though we have not had her 12 month dr. apt yet. The dr. at primary children's weighed her) she is in the 3%. So they are more worried about her growth curve and why it is going down. especially when I told them how much she eats.

Addison waiting for her IV.

So happy for now even with no food or anything to drink for over 11 hours.

She was such a good little girl and so tired we woke her up almost 1.5 hours before she normally wakes up.

Sad little girl. This was just after her IV was put in. They had a hard time finding on with her arms being so little. They brought out this way powerful flashlight, and put it on the back of her wrist and it went all the way through to the other side of her wrist to help find a vain. They found one, but had to dig a little for it. Addison was such a good little girl considering everything.

Addison getting ready for the MRI. You cant see much but all the stuff on the legs.

Getting ready to go in. We could have stayed in the room with her while she was in the tube. But we decided to go to the cafeteria and get something to eat. There was nothing we could have done for her while she was in the MRI but sit and look at each other, plus we were both hungry.

Addison in the recovery room. she was in the MRI for about 1 hour and in recovery for about another 1-1.5 hours

After she woke up it was like having a new born baby again. She did not have much motor skills and her balance was way off. When she woke up, I was able to nurse her and also gave her some apple juice to top her off.

The nurses also told us she would most likely be cranky and ornery all day, from the drugs they had to give her to nock her out. and boy where they right.