Hopefully....
MRI today was a little harder. Could not find a babysitter, so ended up taking the kids along too. Thankfully a wonderful gal in our ward was willing to be my driver and take care of little peeps during my appt.
Woke up not feeling good at all today. MRI was tricky just because I wasn't feeling well. Since it was a brain MRI, the techs had to secure my head in a brace. That was not fun. I was issued a set of ear plugs and then the techs started to talk to me - which kind of made me laugh because I could barely hear them... Not sure why they tried to talk to me after my ears were double covered vs before, and did the IV mid way, and had me sign papers at the end, after my hand was all wrapped up from mult pokes.... They did everything all backwards...
MRI lasted about an hour. First part was without contrast. Second half with contrast. 1st tech went for a vein on the top of my hand, which collapsed before he could get the contrast in. 2nd tech went for cartoid artery in my wrist.... That freaked me out a bit.
All the while i was totally braced down, with ear plugs in...
They used a 2+ min push into the vein through a butterfly needle. Small vein meant injection had to go in slowly. Thankfully last part of imaging wasn't as long. I am not sure I would have made it longer.
I am SO thankful for my friend who was my driver. I was already not feeling good, and after the MRI was feeling even not better.
I treated everyone to lunch and then came home and crashed for a couple of hours. Still struggling this evening. Looking forward to early bedtime with the kids.
We should have preliminary results tomorrow and then a full report by next week. Will be sure to post an update soon!
More in-depth update probably coming later, but the early results are "all-clear." Although we still don't know what has been causing her headaches, I am REALLY relieved it's not cancer in her brain which was the reason they decided to do this MRI.
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