Thursday, October 09, 2008

Emily's Appointment

Emily's Echo appointment went great today! Once the technician brought us back I was greatly relieved to find out that he would rather try to do the Echo without sedation instead of automatically sedating her. He said that it sometimes doesn't work like they want it to and that the babies end up even more mad and fight falling asleep. Emily was a stellar patient! She hung out on the hospital bed with Andy and let him play with her and sing her the ABC's I don't know how many times. She played with the ultrasound wand (or what ever it's called) and just watched the tech. Took about 30 minutes and she didn't get fussy until the very end. Turns out the Dr appointment with the Cardiologist that was supposed to follow the Echo appointment was canceled so now we're playing the waiting game. Not sure if we'll hear the results tomorrow or next week...or who knows when. Hopefully it's soon because the suspense is killing me.

2 comments:

Brenda Joy said...

wand = technical term is probe :-)

from my experience of scanning newborns, it is often a crap shoot on if they will let you scan them, sounds like emily was was the perfect little patient :-) glad to hear it went smoothly!

Erin said...

I can't imagine waiting... how frustrating. It's like they are trying to see how much stress one person can handle. :) Which Cardiologist are you seeing?