A scare

Hadley gave us a huge little scare a few weeks ago. I took her to her 18 month well baby checkup and mentioned how she is holding food in her mouth on her tongue A LOT and won't swallow it for h.o.u.r.s. The doctor had many suggestions of what it 'could' be. Some very simple and some VERY scary. Well don't ever tell this momma the scary option because I immediately go in to panic mode and freak out. They scheduled us the very next day for testing (and they thought I would sleep that night?! Yeah right!!) She had to do a barrium test. She had to lay on a table and drink a substance out of her sippie cup. Well this momma knew that she would be BEYOND furious that strange people were holding her down and she would have nothing to do with that. She has been playing 'baby' recently and loves giving her babies bottles and pacifiers. I threw a bottle in the diaper bag knowing good and well the sippie cup wouldn't work and praying the bottle would! Daddy drove home early from out of town to go to the appointment with us (he and his boss flipped a coin to see if he would go or not cause I said I didn't care and the boss didn't want to make the decision and Robbie and his indecisive self knew he wanted to come but knew if it was nothing he had other obligations at work. So the boss flipped the coin and guess what.... Robbie came home early!! I was like is that seriously how ya'll decided?!?!) So we layed her on the table with the sippy and she flipped out. After a few minutes they decided that wasn't going to work. I grabbed the bottle out of the bag and Robbie looked at me like I had 4 heads. He said "Are you crazy?!! Now that's all she's going to want!!" Umm only one time wasn't going to kill her and it was that or sticking a tube down her throat in to her stomach. I think we all would have preferred the bottle at that point. She also preferred to sit up and drink it instead of being held down so Robbie stood on the machine and held her with one hand and held the bottle in the other hand and the girl drank it like it was a big mac, fries, and a milk shake all rolled in to one!

Geez I was so smart for bringing that bottle! ;)

Is this not the coolest picture! (Yes I did ask before I took it! You can see her skull on the left, her ear pretty much right in the middle and if you look at the top right where you see some writing, look on the xray and that dark li;ttle spot is the bottle nipple!! After that you will see a dark line (darker than anything on the face) and that is the barrium going down. Robbie missed out on getting to watch it live so the wonderful Dr. Shapiro showed him the pictures afterwards. Dr. Shapiro (and her husband who is also a doctor) took care of me while I was pregnant with Hadley. We told her who we were and she remembered us right away! It was so neat to see her again and for her to meet Hadley! Hadley went right too her and she got to love on her for a little bit! She did all my ultrasounds (not on my belly) when I got an infection during my pregnancy and her husband, the male Dr. Shapiro admitted me in to the hospital for I.V. antibiotics and did my surgery to remove the infection. They couldn't put me to sleep since I was 7 months pregnant so we had to do it at the hospital just numbed up really good then I had to stay afterwards for the antibiotics and for the baby to be monitored. It was too risky to wait 2 months for the baby to come out because then infection could have spread to the bone and if that happened, it would have gotten to the baby and we would have had a lot more problems to deal with. Being awake during surgery is very strange. The talk between the doctors and nurses cracked me up. They were all sitting there talking about what TV shows they watched the night before and who they liked on them and who they didn't and what they were going to cook for dinner that night, etc. It was just like a group of friends hanging out talking!! I was like uh hello guys you know my body is open! Let's pay attention and not get off track! Makes you wonder what they really talk about when you are put under anesthesia!

Right after the test Hadley was so glad to be done. She doesn't look too thrilled with us! She had Barrium all around her mouth! Good news was there was no blockage and she looked absolutely perfect! Thank you, daddy for coming home early to help calm our nerves and to help during the testing!