Addison's Medical Scare

The sweet little girl that makes us constantly want to give her kisses and "squeeze" her sure likes to give us some medical scares. I am hoping it's not a precursor for whats ahead. The neurosurgeon that we saw about two weeks ago sent us for a CT scan. The scan was scheduled for two days before Christmas. Our family was at a stand still until after everything came back (clear in our minds). Looking back I feel bad about not being able to enjoy more of the holiday festivities because of the impending test.

On the morning of the 23rd we dropped Alexa off at her friend Elyssa's house. Alexa was sooo excited and didn't even have a chance to say bye to me at drop off. I knew she was going to have a fun day. Once Addison and I arrived at the hospital the nerves kicked in. Addison was greeted by a group of teenagers handing out stuffed animals to the children. Addison LOVES her purple bunny that she was given. She carried it around all morning & it still sleeps with her a month later. We did the usual registration before being sent to imaging. We had to wait over an hour from the time we got to the hospital before we were finally called back. The man who greeted us was very nice and took us on the dreaded walk to the CT scan.

Once we were in there Addison was put on the table and first swaddled (or wrangled) and then strapped down. During the test I had to hold Addison chin still. She was sooo upset that she kept breaking the head strap off. The test took about 10 minutes total. Eventually Addison got worn out and fell asleep. It was very strange for her to fall asleep in that sort of environment.

We had a two hour break from the end of the CT until our follow up with the surgeon.

Once we met with the surgeon they went over all the scans imaging. There was no sign of fluid and no masses in the brain. The skull bones also closed as they should. All is good news. The surgeon said to just make sure no rapid growths happen in the future. He also informed us that we could have surgery to fix her forehead but it would be strictly cosmetic. Needless to say, there will be no cosmetic surgery in this girls future.