The Musings of Ruth: Kirsten's CT

Yesterday Kirsten had an appointment for a CATscan so her ENT can assess how things are going with her nose. We hit traffic on the way downtown (there was a bad accident on the freeway), got there a little late, had to wait, and before our turn they had to rush in an emergency from the OR. It was after noon before the procedure actually began, and one of the biggest praises was that Kirsten did this WITHOUT MEDS! Last time we had a bad experience with them insisting to try without, Kirsten ended up needing it, and they were mad it was taking them longer & that they needed more staff to help monitor her (I posted about it at the time on our Kirsten page (look in the Journal History on 06.18.05). Anyway, Kirsten did a super job staying still, even though I know she wanted to wiggle! They had her wait like that while they looked at the images (I was in the room with her), and they ended up needing one more photo. They gave her extra prizes for being such an awesome patient, and we went to wait for a copy of the results on disk. Kirsten played sweetly with a little two year old boy that was in for some tests after having a brain tumor removed. She's such a caring girl!

We decided to just keep it a nice family day together. Thankfully, Matt had gone to bed earlier that morning, so he had a little energy to last thru all this. We stopped at Blockbuster on the way home to get a movie for Kirsten, then we went to Big Boy to eat lunch (Kirsten didn't have a thing to eat or drink since about 10:30 the night before... and finally had some lunch at around 2:15!) together. The rest of the day was full of naps, playing, eating, snacking, and just spending some awesome quality family time together!

I take the results to Dr. Madgy, her ENT, in a few weeks. Not sure if we'll actually pursue any surgery at this point, but at least we'll know where we stand. She's got too much dental work she needs fixed first. One battle at a time!

Here's some pictures from yesterday's adventure...
she let her Princess Kitty try first...