We were told very early in the morning that Aydan would be going down for his MRI, so we weren't allowed to give him milk or food from a certain time as he would be having a general anaesthetic. Thankfully he was asleep for most of this time as I wouldn't have liked to hear him scream the place down wanting some milk!!!
This is him waiting to go for his MRI
I went with him as he was carted off on this hospital bed, he kept trying to sit up to see what was going on and he kept smiling at everyone around him! He managed to get hold of his hospital notes at one point!!
We went into this room, which was outside the room where they would do his MRI, and I met the anaethetist. He shook my hand and apologised to me as he said that I wouldn't like to see what was about to happen, but that it needed to be done. They asked me to hold his hands. Another nurse held his feet, and then the anaesthetist put a mask over his face, containing the gas that would make him go to sleep, and pinned his head down to the bed. His poor little arms and legs were trying desperately to move and get the mask off, but it wasn't long before he went to sleep. I gave him a kiss before I was carted off back to the ward.
That half an hour felt like the longest half an hour of my life!!
He was still asleep when I went back to get him
They had done some blood tests on him while he was sleeping, so as not to cause him any distress, so when I saw him his little hands were all bandaged up and he had a cannula under one of the bandages.
This was him when he came back, he looked like a right sorry sight the poor thing!
He spent most of the afternoon snoozing, and had a bit of milk here and there, but wasn't really interested in it, but having had anaesthesia myself a few months beforehand I could completely understand.
Later in the afternoon daddy went with him for a Renal/kidney ultrasound. Apparently they were looking for cysts which can appear in the kidneys when people have Tuberous Sclerosis. Apparently he had none which I was told was a very good sign.
Around 11pm Aydan projectile vomited everywhere, it was horrible and he managed to cover mummy and a nurse in it!! a quick clothes change later and we were all clean again! I could have done with a shower really but didn't want to leave him on his own, so just made do with a clothes change.
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