biopsy day

Whenever Claire has a lot of medical stuff going on, the blue doctor bucket usually gets pulled out of the closet at our house.  Mabel is usually (and happily) the victim.  After all the pokes Claire has had lately, she has got this blood work thing down!  She knows how to find the "good" veins and she's sure NOT to move the needle (plastic end of a tube) around when drawing the blood out…because she know how bad that HURTS!!  She reassures her patient that she WON'T do that.  The patient helps out by holding the 'needle' on while she rips off some medical tape for a bandaid.  Then it's on to the next arm because one poke is just never enough :)

And then it's on to reality a few hours later with the roles slightly switched.  Mabel gets to go play at a friends house (most likely NOT drawing blood) while Claire takes her turn being the patient yet again.  The biopsy went well yesterday.  Claire was nervous.  She does NOT like being put to sleep.  She went crazy when we walked in the operating room.  After a good long couple of minutes, we finally got her to settle down.  It was either hold her down on the bed and force the sleeping mask on, or relax and let Mommy hold you while you peacefully go to sleep.  Thankfully she eventually choose the later and let me hold her to sleep.  Phew.  One more "off to sleep" down.  Sad that I can't remember or couldn't even try to count how many kisses I've stollen from her forehead as she lays on the operating room breathing through a mask.  Too many for 6 short years.  

But even so we did it again and once again, everything went well.  The biopsy was quick.  Not much more than an hour later she was awake in the recovery room and watching a movie.  She wasn't so happy about having to lay on her stomach for the next three hours.  The dr.s wanted pressure to be on the site of the kidney to help compress any possible bleeding.  So she watched two movies, on her tummy while I fed her crackers, popsicles, bread and drinks!  She was starving after having to fast breakfast and lunch; the food definitely made her spirit rise a bit.  After the IV finally came out of her hand, she was feeling much more free and was excited to get home. We luckily made it home for a late dinner and were so glad to be able to sleep a truly GOOD night's rest at home.  

Haven't heard any results yet.  TBA.

{in the waiting room before the biopsy} 

{After the biopsy watching Charlottes' Web}