This time we packed HEAVY. A bag of food and snacks for the little one, water for us, laptop, videos, a bag of wee-toys and books, etc.
Our day started in Radiology around 9:30am for abdomen and kidney ultrasounds. Then it was abdominal xrays.
We had an hour or so to kill before the clinic actually started at 11:30 so we hit the cafeteria for an early lunch.
We were the first ones called at 11:30 for the SD clinic and set up camp in exam room one. The last time we were here we didn't get out until 6:30pm so we were bracing ourselves for a loong afternoon.
They have this system at the SD Clinic: Each discipline gets a colored sticker. A week or so before the clinic, someone reviews your chart and affixes all the appropriate colored tags for the Dr's you will be seeing. Every time we have gone to the clinic, the nurse who ushers us in picks up our chart and her eyes go wide when she notices that we have EVERY SINGLE COLOR. On our chart.
"Oh my!" exclaimed the nurse as she took us back. The wife cut her off, "Yeah. We know."
So as I said, we set up camp in exam room one around 11:30 with 7 different colored stickers on our chart. By 1pm we had still not seen a single doctor.
The wife went to the lobby to grab us a couple of coffees and sure enough, the neurologist walked in right after she left.
NEUROLOGY: The doc said everything looks great! The shunt seems to be working just fine, he was very pleased and said he didn't need to see us again for TWO YEARS. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a new record for us. I asked about what appears to be perpetual bruising on Annie's scalp and he explained that to do the third ventriculostomy last year, they had to disrupt blood flow to that portion of her scalp. The discoloration is most likely permanent but but as long as Annie is growing hair, it is nothing to worry about.
So that was that.
(to be continued)
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