Friday went well, we checked into imaging at 8 am and as always Chase was chomping at the bit to get his “sleepy medicine”. He was relatively patient until about the last ten minutes when he began to whine, “where is the anesthesiologist”. Once the doctor walked in Chase was quick to giver her the “Chase protocol”, He started by saying, “finally you are here, sooo I take in all of my stuffed animals and my blankie so I won’t get cold, oh I also brought my night cap. My mommy must go in with me so she can sing to me and I like the sleepy mask and I really like the grape flavor...okay that it I am ready to go now.” He grabbed my hand and headed out. When he walked into the gantry he was quick to ask a few last minute question directed to the MRI techs, “What are these contraptions?”. They all giggled and said it is the machine that took the pictures when he was in the tube. He seemed satisfied with the answer and headed out. He hopped onto the table and once he had his mask on he gave me the thumbs up to start singing. I sang my baby to sleep and held his hand. I watched him drift softly off to sleep and gave him a kiss on the head and asked the docs to take care of my baby. I could tell Emma was nervous as she waited for Chase. She would ask every couple of minutes is Chase was out and I reassured her that he would be out soon. Finally, the nurse came out and called for the Lock Family. Emma sprang from her chair and darted to recovery. Typically Chase is still sleeping when we get back there but to my surprise he was up and chatting with the nurse who was giving him a drink of water. He smiled as we walked in and Emma was the first one at his bedside holding Chase’s hand. I was surprised Chase allowed her to hold his hand with the IV in it. The nurse asked if he was ready to take out his IV and Chase sweetly responded “yes please”. I thought he may panic when they went to take it out but he was perfectly calm and actually watched them take it out without shedding a single tear. We snuggled him in his stroller and headed out. Chase was happy to get back to the hotel and play some video games with his daddy. Since Emma had been so patient I took her out for a mommy and Emma day. We had a great time and the one on one time was great. Chase had one request on his list of what he would like to do this summer...go watch his buddy Paul Goldshmidt play a baseball game. We were lucky enough to have a wonderful friend who got us pre-game tickets on the field to watch the team practice. Chase was overjoyed as he scanned the field to find #44. As we sat on the sidelines Prado and Sosso came over and said hi and signed Chase’s ball and jersey. Finally, we saw Paul walking over to Chase. Chase asked if Paul remembered him and Paul was very sweet and said, “ya I remember you from the hospital, remember you rubbed my jersey for good luck”. Chase was so pleased that his buddy remembered him. Prado also took a special interest in Chase (really a super sweet guy). He took of his wrist band and gave it to Chase. He asked where Chase would be sitting and later when Prado caught a ball he came over and handed it to Chase YAY. The sad thing was despite how close we were to the field during game time, Chase could not see the batter or 1st base (where Goldshmidt was). His vision was still not enough to allow him to see the game ) : None the less we had an amazing time!!! We are now die hard Diamondbacks fans...the guys are truly super great guys. So now we remain still and exercise patience as we wait for results. We usually have results by now but our neuro surgeon is out of the country until August and our oncologist is out on maternity leave. So this leaves an oncologist who is filling in and it is very unlikely he will opine on the results, he will probably just wait for the final radiology report...which can be tricky to decipher. So I am telling myself that maybe I will hear something at the end of the week or beginning of next week...in order to keep from freaking out every time the phone rings (although my heart still skips a beat every time the phone rings). I just want clean scans... Many blessings to you all.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:23:21 +0000