Scanning

Yesterday was our CT Scan...we didn't learn a lot (the results won't be in until Wednesday), just that it really is a tumor we are looking at. Aspen did really well with everything. She had to drink some thick, chalky, banana flavored Barium which made her feel like throwing up. We were of the understanding that if she drank the Barium she wouldn't need the IV Iodine....that wasn't the case. They started the IV as soon as we got there. Aspen was pretty scared, but did fine...she held still, didn't cry (she's pretty tough) and did everything she was asked without freaking out.

She just doesn't have much doctor time under her belt, and the times she has been have been traumatic. Just vaccines, and the emergency room (where she learned to dislike people in white coats, she was 18 months old the first time). She has never really been sick. So she really equates going to the doctor with pain. She was pretty petrified of going into the "giant donut" (CT machine), we stood there and looked at it and talked about it for a long time before they came to get her.

The fear caused her to really focus...she knows where every little bell and whistle on the thing is. She was telling me about the speakers and the transparent parts and how they are only transparent part of the time, etc, etc. She isn't really a techy girl.

Many thanks to Leslie and Allyson who went into the giant donut before us and warned us about liquid Barium!! The resources around us continue to astound us (ooh, that rhymes).