Brooke’s CP Blog

Wednesday, Oct. 29th Final Spinal Treatment/MRI

October 29th, 2008

Hello again.  Let’s begin with this morning.  The doctor’s came in and examined Brooke.  Again they said Brooke’s tone has decreased.  Dr. Frank filmed Brooke walking today.  I think that it has decreased which is why Brooke it taking better steps with my assistance.

We finally went downtown and got our MRI.  We had to go to Qingdao City Hospital  for this procedure.  Brooke had to drink a sedative.  It was so awful tasting.  We tried mixing it with apple juice and that did not work, we tried adding surgar and that did not work either.  She would not drink  it and I didn’t blame her, it was awful.  I asked the doctor if we could inject into her and he said he could but it may make her vomit.  I did not want to do that.  So we just ended up using a syringe and shooting into her mouth a few times.  Brooke did not like that at all.  Brooke was completely uncooperative and fighting every moment of going to sleep afterwards.  I thought we were not going to be able to do it and have to come back.  Finally, after about and half an hour of this she was asleep.  I went into the diagnostic room with her.   They have to sedate most small children because they get scared from the noise the machine makes and most importantly they have to lie still for 20 minutes.  Brooke was completely asleep from the sedative so it really was a breeze for her.  The doctor’s will meet with us tomorrow to discuss the results of the MRI and give there professional opinion.  We then had to drive to the Qingdao Airport to pickup the stem cells for the afternoon treatments, including Brooke’s.  The stem cells come frozen in a cooler. 

It now 4:10 p.m. and Brooke is one hour into recovery from her final spinal treatment.  She can drink something in another hour.  We three hours left before we can eat.  So far so good.  Diane is reading to Brooke and I am blogging.  I am usually the one who spends most of the 6 hours with Brooke and Diane would end of cooking but tonight we are ordering spaghetti and Lasgna.

Brooke has made this special friend, her name is Hannah. Hannah comes to visit Brooke everyday and play with her.  Hannah is 3  years old and they ador eachother.  Hannah is from Singaporej and leaves Saturday also.  When hannah and brooke are playing together and Hannah has to go Brooke goes into a screaming, crying fit. 

We have made an usual verbage discovery on the mops the hospital supplied us.  It said something like “the crowded water is f__king.”  I don’t want to use slang in the blog.  But you can all figure it out.  I don’t know why or what that meant and neither does the hospital staff.  Diane brought it to the staff’s attention and shortly afterwards, they cleaning lady came  around and tore everyone’s label off.  I wanted to take a picture of it and show everyone. 

Until tomorrow

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