We arrived at the Clinic for 8am registration. They took us right back and we prepped for the scan. We met with anesthesiology and found out it was the same one we'll be having for the cath on Thursday. The plan was for a short CT scan (should be a total of about 10 minutes of scanning) with medium sedation. He would be asleep but breathing on his own and easily awoken.
He took his Versed (happy medicine) to relax before being put to sleep. He was doing very well with it and became very loopy while watching Paw Patrol on TV and snuggling with me. :)
We went back to be put to sleep. He went down on the table and we went to give him the gas to go to sleep. He said "I'm not really in the mood for that right now." Well, tough it's happening anyway LOL. He did well with it and only said he was scared once through the mask. I hate that. :( I went and waited in the waiting room for what was supposed to be 20-30 minutes. After an hour I had them check back in the room to see what was going on. He had just gotten out and I went back to see him. They said they had to intubate him (put the breathing tube in) because they had to give him more anesthesia. They weren't able to see the small vessels that they wanted without knocking him out more apparently. He was OUT!
Thankfully they were able to extubate (remove the breathing tube) him quickly and easily so that wasn't a big deal. It did take a long time for him to wake up - and we actually made him get up by wiping him with a wet rag and irritating him. He finally woke up enough (with some bribes from the nurse to pick a prize from the treasure chest) to somewhat sit up in bed. He kept flopping over, but we propped him up with blankets and kept trying to keep him awake. He attempted coloring, but was very tired and out of it. Poor little man!
He also was very confused about what was going on. He would randomly look around and ask where we were. He also asked multiple times when we were going to do the donut test (that's what he calls the CT scan machine). He didn't believe me when I told him he already did it LOL!
Even though things went really well and he's doing great, he did have a couple questionable rhythm concerns. About every 15 minutes he would have an irregular heart beat (PVC). Once we started waking him up they increased from that every 15 minutes to all the way to about every 30 seconds. They said it was most likely due to the anesthesia, so hopefully that's all it was. I will be asking Dr. Golden/Dr. Zahka about it this week.
They unhooked Ethan and discharged us pretty quickly. In fact, he was still basically sleeping and flopping all over the place when we were supposed to leave!
Thankfully they gave us a wheelchair since he couldn't walk. I wasn't very comfortable leaving the hospital with him that out of it still, so we went down to the cafeteria for lunch. He was starving so he ate an entire McDonalds happy meal and still wanted to go to Starbucks after that! I told him to hold off on the Starbucks because the last thing I wanted was for him to overdo it and puke all over my car!
We headed out to the car and stopped to watch the construction going on outside (and spotting some garbage trucks that he insisted were there - I didn't see any!)
We had a great ride home and Ethan was in a rare chipper mood. He was watching a "Leap Frog sight words" video in the backseat. I could hear him repeating the words they were showing and saying them weirdly. He'd keep repeating them and start cracking up at himself and the way they sounded. Needless to say, the drugs were making him feel pretty good today! :) He even was nice and giggly with Callie when she came home from school!
He ate a great dinner, ate tons of snacks, and just went off to sleep easily. Hopefully we'll get a great night sleep tonight to catch up on some rest. Last night he was up screaming for hours. I don't know if it was because of some caffeine he had in the afternoon or if he was nervous about the scan. Either way, the combination of not falling asleep plus waking up to head downtown early this morning was not appreciated! He's looking forward to going back to school tomorrow, so hopefully things go smoothly and he can have a great day back.
I don't know when we'll get the results of the scan. I most likely won't know any details until Wednesday or maybe Thursday at the cath. Once I find out some info I will let you all know. Please keep us in your prayers that we stay healthy this week for the cath. In the hospital cafeteria, a woman sat down right next to Ethan and started coughing all over herself. It was disgusting. I packed up as quickly as possible and left, so hopefully no damage was done! You would think that if you're sick and you see a little kid in a wheelchair sitting as far away from people as possible, you wouldn't go sit right next to him and start coughing up a lung! *sigh* Anyway, thanks for all the prayers and please keep them coming. Thursday is going to be huge, so we appreciate all we can get!
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