A long, LONG day...

Well, we got through today... a very long, long day. I am so tired I can hardly see straight. Daddy had to work today so Grandma came down to babysit the other two girls while Ashley & I went back for today's MRI. Unfortunately, Grandma didn't hear me this morning when I said that Ashley couldn't have anything to eat or drink, and at 8:30 AM she let Ashley have a package of fruit snackies while I was finishing getting us ready to load up... Oops! Honest mistake, and I was hoping it wouldn't end up being too big of a deal, but it was.

When we got to the hospital at 10:00 AM, I told them about it, and the anesthesiologist said we couldn't do it. We need the results back in time for our appointment with our oncologist on Thursday, and so they strongly reccommended that we stay & wait. We had to wait at least three hours, and they happened to have a time slot open in 4 hours. That was so hard,.. Ashley had already started getting hungry at that point, let alone having to wait another 4 hours just to do the scan, and then would be another 2 hours beyond that before she could eat anything.

She ended up not getting to eat anything until about 5:00 PM. I did my best to keep her occupied & distracted, but how much can you really do in a hospital for hours & hours,... so, we watched some cartoons, and then we went for a walk. We walked through the Children's Garden outside for awhile, and that was nice,.. then, we went to the gift shop and Ashley picked out a pretty butterfly mylar balloon, and we tied it to her stroller. Next, we walked around the hospital, up & down all the hallways, but about that time it was lunchtime, and so the whole hospital smelled like food, and that wasn't helping, so we went back downstairs and sat in the waiting room again. After that, we played Go-Fish for a little while, and read a story, and played with some toys... the clock ticked by so slowly. Finally about the point where she couldn't stand it anymore, it was 2:15 and they came and got her for the MRI, She was done about 3:15,.. she woke a lot more roughly than she did yesterday & was pretty upset, but I was able to console her, and by 3:30ish we were on the road. Thankfully, traffic wasn't too bad, and we still made it home in a little over an hour,.. just before 4:45.

A long, long day, and we are so pooped, but otherwise, the scan went well. Grandma, don't feel bad,... accidents happen, and we love you!! (((hugs))) K, folks,.. that's all I can muster for an update today. I'm sheer exhausted. Ashley is doing well, and seems fairly perky now that we're home, and she can play & have some fun in her own environment... I'm going to do as a little as possible until I can snooze. I am so ready for bed and to catch some Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!! We see the oncologist again on Thursday, and should know all the results from all of the tests between yesterday & today by then.