Medical Update

I thought I would give a quick medical update on Cody and Jade. Jade first because honestly she is just cruising along. She now weighs 17 lbs. 4 oz. at 7 1/2 months old. Not bad considering her brother was 17 lbs. even when he was 1 year old. The good news about her weight is that they let me slightly decrease her milk intake and increase her baby food. Hopefully that is a good step in the direction of having her feeding tube out. By the end of the month she will start having physical therapy once a week. With this increase hopefully her motor skills will start to show even more improvement. But overall, she is doing wonderfully. It is fun to see her start to come into her own personality and really just be a happy baby.
Cody also had some medical stuff this month. He had some blood work done that showed he was insufficiantly producing his growth hormone, hence his short stature. Anyway, before he can be treated they had to give him a MRI to rule out a brain tumor. So yesturday we headed to The Children's Specialty Hospital in New Brunswick for the MRI. I think the staff thought we were weird for taking pictures, but I did it anyway.

Here is Cody waiting to be taken in.

To administer the anesthesia they were going to use this mask, so they let Cody play with it for a minute so he wouldn't be scared of it. Cody loved it because it smelt like bubble gum.

I held him while he "fell asleep". He was such a good kid. All the technicians kept telling me he was their best patient of the day.

Into the big machine.

This is what he looked like when we got him back.

Overall, he did really well. When he first came out of the anesthesia he was very out of it. He was thrashing and kicking all over and screaming and crying. He almost fell of the bed a few times too. But he was not really awake and quickly fell back asleep again. Then when he woke up the second time he was more like my sweet little guy and didn't remember anything that happened. Hopefully this is our last experience with anesthesia