MRI

Siena's MRI has been scheduled for Christmas Eve. WHAT!??!? I know weird, but it was the first morning open and since they want the patients to with hold food for 8 hours you can exactly starve a baby through out the day. She can have clear fluids until 2 hours before. Their idea of clear fluids crack me up. Juice, Gatorade, koolaid, water. Who gives their baby Gatorade and koolaid???? Anyways, check in is at 7:45am and the MRI is at 8:45. She has to be sedated because they need her to be still for an hour. We can be with her while she is being anesthetized. I am not sure about the scan part. I also don't know how long we have to wait for results. Maybe a week or so. I was a little on the fence at first about doing this but Siena's head tilt came back on Thursday and so far the worst of the days were Saturday and Sunday. The scan is being done to rule out acquired torticollis which is caused by a tumor or lesion on the brain. She isn't in any pain, she just tilts her head to the left. I did have the doctor recheck her eyes just to make sure there wasn't an eye problem causing the tilt. The Dr. said the eye looked fine and that the MRI will look at the optic nerves as well.

Please keep her in your thoughts on Christmas Eve.