Our eldest sweetheart barely failed a pediatric eye exam. As a result, they referred him to a Pediatric Eye Doc. The doc performed a plethora of tests including; touching his nose while being cross-eyed, measuring the longitude and latitude of his eyeball, and dilating him to the point of black olive'esque pupils. Final determination: the nerve leading to the eye from his friend the brain wasn't firing as quickly as it should. Could be normal or may not be normal. Since he had passed an eye test previously, the doc decided to err on the side of caution and do an MRI to ensure nothing else was going on in his brain. How does a mom hear this seemingly simple statement? OH MY GOD... HE HAS A BRAIN TUMOR!!! We promptly booked an MRI for exactly three days later.
The day had arrived. We checked into Children's at 11:30 with the procedure scheduled to start at 12:30. Our little trooper hadn't eaten since the night before and casually mentioned a couple of times that he was starving. He was actually smiley, playful, and not the least bit fearful of what was to come. The moment arrived to head in to the "spaceship." I thought for sure he'd look at this intimidating machine in this intimidating room with these intimidating people with masks on and run for the hills. Not the case! He walked in and hopped up onto the table before they even asked. He laid down, chose bubblegum as his anesthesia flavor of choice, and was told he'd be feeling a little silly very quickly (otherwise known as laughing gas.) We knew the moment it kicked in because his eyes actually started laughing. Next up... the sleeping gas. The Anesthesiologist explained to him that it would smell like the Carolina Panthers locker room. She obviously knew the way to his heart because he drifted off to dreamland with a giant Cam Newton smile!
150 pictures and two hours later, they call us back as our first born lays sleeping - his liver working hard to burn off the Propofol remains (remind you of Michael Jackson, no?!?) He looked so vulnerable at that moment, almost like he was a baby again. He woke as quickly as he fell asleep, but apparently the laughing gas was still on board because this kid was hilarious!
After a very long 24-hour wait for results, we received the GOOD NEWS. His brain is perfection!! I knew that all along... didn't sweat a thing! All is good AND he has pictures of his brain to boot. How cool is that!? Check out those eyeballs!
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