August 4 = MRI Day

Poor little Liam :( In order to wean him off of his seizure medicine (which we are not great about giving him anyway) Liam's neurologist wanted us to get a clean EEG, MRI and bloodwork.  The EEG wasn't too big of a deal but the MRI was a different story.  I stayed at home with Malia and Zachary and Liam headed off to Bethesda.  He was getting blood work done on the same day so that after they sedated him for the MRI, they could do the bloodwork and he wouldn't even know it had happened.  

That's not what ended up happening.  They start sticking him and it's not working so they have to try multiple spots.  Zachary ends up realizing they're taking blood, not starting the IV for sedation and immediately points this out to them asking why are you taking the blood work before he's sedated?  And they respond, "Oh... yeah."  

So the IV goes in easily and then they finish the bloodwork.  When someone called to give us instructions- he couldn't eat after a certain time, he had to wear clothes with no buttons or snaps, etc.- they told us after the MRI he'd have 2 hours to wake up.  If he didn't wake up within that 2 hour window, they would wake him up themselves.  So when they took him back for the MRI they told Zachary he'd come back asleep so to just relax and start reading- Zachary had brought his textbooks to get ahead in his school work.  Liam came back from the MRI wide awake.  They also said he'd have a hard time eating if he wanted to eat at all and not to rush it but he'd need to eat two graham crackers and a popsicle before he left.  Immediately, he ate all of it and had no problem at all.  Here's a picture of Father and Son enjoying their popsicles.

So we are really happy that is over with.  When he got home, he was very unstable when walking- it was actually kind of funny- Zachary said he looked like a little drunk.  But thankfully, he never got sick like we were warned about so all in all it was a good experience!