Today, we spent all day at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital for Sadie to undergo a MRI, prescribed by Dr. Paley in Florida. This is a procedure he needs to gain a detailed view of her hip formation as related to the cartilage, femur bone, pelvis, etc. This all relates to her superhip surgery that he will be performing for us in November 2013.
Sadie had to go under general anesthesia to have this done. We were not allowed back with her as they administered the gas and IV. She is getting to be very observant and knew something was up. She also was not allowed to eat or drink anything all day, so that made my job as toddler entertainment a bit more difficult as well, while waiting for over an hour for the doctor to take her back. I know that people, babies and animals all undergo anesthesia every day all over the world, but when it is your baby, that is the only one that matters.
I could tell that, as I requested, all of our friends and family were thinking and praying for Sadie. I have always believed in signs and a few of them leading up to the surgery I feel were in our favor....they called us the day before and moved the time up to the morning instead of afternoon (remember -- no food/drink for toddler until after procedure), my favorite Dave Matthews Band song and version (acoustic version of #41) came on the radio JUST as we were pulling into the parking garage, we ran into Dr. Liu (our orthopedic doctor at Rainbow) just as we were entering the elevator and got to say chat with him, one of the nurses in the pre-surgery waiting room asked if we were related to Ann Falvey (which Jimmy thinks was his grandpa's sister), AND right after we left Sadie with the doctor as she was crying, we went into the gift shop and found the one and only Dora balloon. Sadie LOVES balloons (at the stores we call her the balloon detective because she will point out all of the balloons for you) and she also LOVES Dora. It was a 3 foot tall Dora Halloween balloon too, just like her book and DVD she currently loves. It was perfect, and the ONLY one they had left. Totally meant for Sadie!
Everything went well. The procedure only lasted a little over an hour and we were back with our girl, waiting for her to wake up. As soon as she woke up, she saw the balloon and almost hyperventilated she was so excited. She drank some apple juice, devoured an entire banana and we were on our way home!
It was a test drive for our big hip surgery in one year. We are so thankful for how perfectly everything went. We even managed to laugh a little and have some fun during the day too. We are a lucky family! I hope her other procedures go this well!
