January 9, 2007

On January 9, 2007 we went to Shands for our scheduled pre-op. Our first appointment was with the plastic surgeon who would be reshaping Presley's head. As we were leaving the appointment, we received a call from the neurosurgeon's office letting us know that the surgery had been postponed due to the MLK holiday on January 15. Apparently, nobody involved in the scheduling realized it was a holiday and that the hospital would pretty much shut down. So, they rescheduled us for February 5, 2007.

We continued with the pre-op procedures for the day. During the appointment with the neurosurgeon, Dr. Pincus decided he wanted to have an MRI performed on Presley to ensure that his "lazy eye" was not related to the brain in any way. We went through the rest of our appointments for the day, and finally got to the MRI at about 5pm. We spent an hour waiting, and they took Presley back to perform the exam. Unfortunately, Presley didn't want to have anything to do with it. He screamed and moved around so much that they couldn't perform the exam. We had an appointment at 6:30pm at the blood bank, for Dana to donate for the possible transfusion, so we decided to give the MRI another try after the appointment.

We left the hospital and went to the blood bank for Dana to donate. At this point, we didn't have anything to eat during the day because we had spent so much time running around from appointment to appointment. As the technicians tried to draw Dana's blood, they had difficulty getting it to leave her veins. They suggested that it might be related to the lack of food, as well as narrow veins. Another dissapointing appointment.

Finally, we returned to the MRI department where we were told that the machines were being used by an emergency case, and a pre-scheduled case, that would both last 1.5 hours. They tried another lab in the hospital, and fortunately they were able to get us in. At about 8:15pm, they took Presley back to attempt another MRI. He wouldn't have anything to do with it. The outcome ... we were going to need to have Presley sedated and try another day!

We got home at around 11pm that night. Thank you so much to our friend Lynne who took care of Ashley, Powell and Amelia the entire time we were gone. What a relief to get home!