Yesterday was the MRI. The good thing about it was that the process went smoothly. No long waiting time. Ella went right to sleep after taking the sedation meds. One hour later we met her in the recover room and soon after she was her old self again. Whew! I guess that is not too surprising since the medication they use for sedation is similar to phenobarb which she is very accustomed to already.
The alarming part about the MRI was looking over the films afterwards. Again, we see such an abnormal looking brain. To me, a layman in this, it seems incredible that she smiles, eats, laughs, moves. The left side of the brain is dwarfed by the right and the two can’t even be compared as the same organ. She has a huge opening on the right side that would be the ventricle. Of course, it depends on the angle the cross-cuts are taken at but on none of them is there any basis for comparison. I guess we’ll hear on Wednesday if everything still looks good for the operation. I’m just hoping there won’t be any new, unexpected information that will have some ominous bearing on the prognosis. I guess we, Etan and I, are feeling the anxiety as we get closer to the operation. I enjoy focusing on other things (like studies and work) but disturbing thoughts about possible complications and what we are going into are never far, especially when Ella has been so cute and lovable lately.
She is such a little doll.