PET Scan

This morning we had to starve ourselves so we would be ready for the PET scan. Brody had to get off the TPN very slowly and just be on fluids.

He was a bit grumpy all morning, and had a obsession with cutting out things with paper, which for the first time he made rectangle shapes and a square and made a robot. We did this once before with a stencil, the shapes were already marked on the paper. He is so amazing to remember what shapes he needed and to cut it out with no marks on the paper. Cant believe it!!

We left for the PET scan at 12.35pm and the porter pushed Brody's bed over to the adult hospital, as they don't have a PET scan machine in the kids hospital. The porter dropped us off at the wrong spot, so the nurse and i had to push the bed to the right place. The poor nurse will be black and blue tonight as the bed kept pushing her into the wall. Need L's to drive a bed!!!

Brody and i stay in a little room where they put some special dye into him, i had to stand and sit behind a metal shield, as the dye had radiation in it, and could come off Brody to me.

We had to wait 45 minutes for the dye to go through and then they put him to sleep.

I then had to carry him into the room with the machine, where they tapped him up, so he cant fall off or move. The scan took about half hour. Brody had a good sleep, until 5 pm.

This afternoon he woke up very perky and ate some of grandma's chicken soup with toast. Maybe he should of had the scan earlier, to get him to eat. LOL

Hopefully we get the results tomorrow.