CT Scan at Children's

Friday, September 13th - CT scan

Bryce's scan couldn't have gone any better, what a relief!  Grandma came in to watch Kaylin (thank you Grandma!) and Ray and I headed to Children's hospital in Rockville, MD for his 11am appointment.  We left at 9:30am and got there pretty quickly by10:30.  We filled out some paperwork and they took us in right away.   I can't say nicer things about the people who work there.  Everyone was fantastic!

We went into the room, they dimmed the lights for us and I fed Bryce.  As planned, he fell asleep as I fed him, I swaddled him up and the nurses helped me put him in position for his scan.  Ray and I got to stay in the room throughout the scan.  The scan took only a few minutes.  He was perfect.  He remained sleeping and still the entire time, he didn't spit up and the scan was a success!  Deep breath, huge relief!  

When the scan was over the nurses checked with the neurosurgeon to make sure they were readable (which they were) then we headed to the waiting room to wait for the CD.  

The entire process from the time we got there until the time we left, probably took 45 minutes to an hour at most.  We would have had quite a different day if we had gone to Fairfax Hospital and Bryce had been sedated.  Again I couldn't be more thankful for Dr. Ku and her husband for reaching out to us and encouraging us to go to Children's Hospital.

The lines that you see are the open sutures in his head which allows his head to grow and take shape.  As you can see the suture on the right side is normal, but there is no suture on the left side.