Growing Snowflowers

"Dr Piper to Radiology...STAT!"

Friday was a long day! We had Paisley's MRI scheduled for 12pm so we needed to be at the University Hospital at 11am so that they could prep her for the IV. Turns out Paisley is really a 'hard stick' when it comes to finding viable veins for an IV, so the bigwigs were called in and finally, a line was put in, but again, it wasn't pretty. We were so happy to be at the University Pediatrics Radiology center, their setup is amazing. In the waiting room there is a play sized MRI machine, Piper had a blast 'Doctoring' the baby dolls. It was also a good way for us to show her what the REAL Doctors would be doing to look at Paisley's head. Talk about a 'learning' hospital.

zapping the baby!

Wonderful nurses taking care of Miss Paisley

I decided to sit int he MRI room with Paisley, at one point Paisley started to come around so they had to stop, push a wee bit more 'sleepy juice' and repeat some of the films. It was good to be with her as she fell asleep, I wanted her to know I wasn't going to leave her at all during the whole process. After about 45 minutes the scans were finished and we waited for her to wake up...seems that Paisley decided that she wanted to sleep a bit more since it was her real nap time and all the poking and prodding wore her out. The Docs weren't having any of that and let her snooze for about ten minutes before waking her up. She did great, despite the nasty old IV (we've been told from this point on a vascular specialist is needed and an ultrasound done to place an IV in the future!)

sleeping beauty...and bunny.