A not so typical Wednesday...

Every Wednesday morning I attend a precious Mom's Bible study at my church. Maddie spends Wednesday afternoons with her friends Max and Zeke. While Maddie is hanging out with her friends I use that time to spend with Fletcher. He's been having some problems with his left eye and as the nurse practitioner, Julie was looking at it I asked her to look at a bump on the top of Fletcher's head. She felt the bump and was very suspicious of it. She called Dr. Khichi (Fletcher's PCP) and he told her to order an MRI. Well, Julie wasn't convinced that this was the best way to go so she called a pediatric neurologist. The two of them decided Fletcher needed to have an emergency CT scan. They wanted to rule out water on his brain or a brain bleed. Needless to say, I was becoming more afraid with every bit of information I was receiving. I called Craig and he came up to the Center. Children's Hospital said they could do the CT scan if we got there immediately. That meant Craig and I would have to drive him there in our van. Normally this would be a problem because I don't keep Fletcher's car seat in our car, but remember last week when Fletcher was supposed to go to church with us? Well, I hadn't taken the car seat out of my van so it was in there and we were set to go. Thank you, Jesus! Well, we had a CT scan at Children's at the end of June and it was a fiasco! So, Julie went with us to make sure everything went well. I'm so thankful she went because although it took about 2 hours of waiting we didn't have too many problems. They had to do the scan two different times because the first one didn't get good pictures. In an attempt to keep Fletcher calm, Craig and I stood on either side of him and sang at least ten rounds of 'Old MacDonald'. Anyway, they were able to rule out the water on the brain and the brain bleed, but Fletcher is still going to have to have a MRI, hopefully very soon. The person reading the CT said the bump looked like a spongy bone and that it was about an inch and a half deep. That's weird. We're not completely sure we understand what a spongy bone is and how it would pop up in a day. So, we're thankful that he will have a MRI. The first picture I posted is from yesterday, if you look closely you can see a slight bump where his soft spot was. The others are from the second CT scan.

Yesterday at the eye doctor What a trooper, that's a smile on his face! Oh yeah, and he's supposed to be sedated!
Again, he's supposed to be out like a light!
Sweetest daddy in the world!

Fletcher is back at the Center and is resting well. Craig and I are so thankful to the Lord for this turning out not to be a nightmare. We are grateful for Julie being so aggressive and proactive today. We feel so much better knowing that Fletcher is being taken care of by such wonderful people. We would of course, appreciate your prayers. One, that we could find out what this bump is, two, that we would be able to get an MRI very soon, and three, for the doctors and nurses dealing with Fletcher will have wisdom and discernment.

Update on Fletcher's CT scan

Fletcher had a sedated CT scan this morning. We'll have to wait for the neurosurgeon to read it and give report to the doctor at the Center. This procedure did not happen without a few 'people problems.' One doctor came out and decided without even using a stethoscope, that Fletcher had 'crackles' which is indicative of pneumonia and "did not feel comfortable sedating him" and he walked away from us. Another doctor, who, by the way sedated Fletcher six months ago for his last CT scan decided he also was not comfortable sedating Fletcher for his scheduled sedated CT scan (to their credit, I will say that these doctors were radiologist.) So, after 2 hours they called an anesthesiologist to sedate him. Today Dr. Furman, walked up to Fletcher and me and asked a few questions and off we went. Dr. Furman was about 75 years old and completely unafraid of my sweet Fletcher. He was precious and was an answer to my prayers. This morning when I was on my way to TCC, as I prayed for Fletcher I specifically prayed that these people would treat him like their own child, that they would show him compassion and Dr. Furman did just that. A lot of the times when we go to any appointment people just stare at Fletcher and doctors make judgements about him that are unfounded just because he's different than the 'norm'. My problem with that is Fletcher is a sweet, smart little boy who deserves to be treated with respect. Someday he WILL realize that people are staring at him and talking about him. I'm not looking forward to that day. Thanks so much for praying for Fletcher today. All in all it went well. I'll update with the results when I know something.