Saturday, June 13, 2009

Friday's Appointments

We met with Pre-op on Friday in Seattle - where they did a physical and a complete history on Benjamin. Going down we told Benjamin there would be no needles just talking and he was happy with that - however they wanted to do a blood count.

Benjamin & I went to the lab - Logan & Ryan went for a walk around the hospital -- Benjamin kept saying to the man as we were walking to the blood lab room, "please man don't make it hurt okay please man" - Benjamin was such a brave boy- he sat on mommy's lap and got his blood drawn - didn't even say ow or anything - he watched the whole time - mommy was very proud of him.

So the plan now is

Benjamin, Logan, Ryan & I are heading to Seattle Sunday afternoon - we have a hotel booked about 20 minutes from the hospital - we are going to meet my parents in Seattle - they are staying at the same hotel.

Ryan & I are going out for supper Sunday night just the two of us - first time in a long long time that we have had time just for us - the boys are going to play with Nanny & Grampy.

We have to leave the hotel by 615am (hopefully having breakfast at 6am!) and head to Seattle children's hospital for 645am - Benjamin is going into the Operating Room at 8am. They are going to do the lumbar puncture and if the pressure is high then they will operate on his brain and insert the shunt.

If he does have the operation then he will be in the hospital for 1-2 days - I am so happy my parents are going to be here with us!

I will update Sunday before we leave
and then No update on Monday means we are in the hospital and he had the shunt put in - so cross your fingers he doesn't need a shunt and you can get an update on Monday evening - if not I will be by a computer probably Wednesday to update......

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