MRI results!

When Iz came back from her MRI, she did NOT want to wake up.  Kiddo just wanted to sleep and sleep and sleep.  Her nurses (she had two at this point) and the doctor joked that she exhausted herself fight the sedation so now she needed extra sleep :p  And she did fight it, right up to the end.  One of the nurses remarked on how surprised she was Iz was still awake and moving so far into the medication drip.  But she did eventually go to sleep and went back for her MRI. And in recovery, she slept and slept and slept :p

It probably didn't help that this was during her normal naptime as well.  Eventually we got a few stirs from her but she'd crack one eye open, peek at me, and then go right back to sleep.  Even sitting her up didn't rouse her much.

Eventually, though, she did wake up enough to agree to a Popsicle, followed by teddy grahams and a water (she didn't want the juice the nurse offered but was all for a bottle of water!).

 

Up until this point, she had only said a few words to me in a whisper but I think the medications were making her a little loopy because when she finished her teddy grahams, she belted out in a clear loud voice "ALL GONE NOW.  I WANT TO GO. I WANT MY PAWPAW."  LOL  They could hear her all over the recovery unit :p  So we packed up and off we went to the car.  I had her stroller, which was a very good thing as she was nodding off while we walked and I'm pretty sure she was asleep before we even left the parking garage.  She was a little wobbly the rest of the day and part of the next but I was told the meds would be in her system for about 24 hours so expect her to be a little "off".  That didn't slow her down--the doctors orders to sit and watch tv?  She wasn't having any of it.  We had her running around in my dads yard so at least when she fell over, it was in the soft grass :p  She wasn't going to just sit around!

I got the call late yesterday afternoon with the results.  She has a cyst in her brain near the pituitary gland called a Rathke’s cleft cyst.  Neurology says that these cysts are normally harmless if they remain small but can interfere with the pituitary gland.  Next step is to talk to the pediatrician and see if she wants to do some lab work (endocrine panel) to see if the pituitary is being affected.  I'd prefer to do the panel, just in case.  Neurology also said it is very unlikely that this cyst is causing her abnormal EEG so no answers there--next up is May's 24-hour EEG.