Shayla and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

We spent yesterday morning at Texas Children's Hospital getting an MRI of Shayla's heart. Normally an MRI is not that big of a deal, but when you are 2 months old and need to be sedated it is not very fun. We were not allowed to feed Shayla after 2am and so when we arrived at the hospital at 6am she was already unhappy. After an hour wait it was time to get an IV.

Here she is being so good while we dress her in a tiny circus print hospital gown. She didn't know what was coming. The nurses stuck her four times and still couldn't get the IV(you know how that goes they tie your arm off with the rubber band- which she hated- and dig around with the needle yuck!).

Its so hard when your baby looks at you as if to say "please help me, save me, feed me... do something" and you cant do anything for her. You wonder if she will ever forgive you.

After about half an hour of torture they decided they would have to put her under with gas to get the IV (so they could put her under...) Here is our tough little one fighting the gas.

Before you think we are crazy for taking pictures at a time like this imagine how interested she will be to see them when she grows up. The MRI took over an hour and they got all the images they needed. We took a sad little girl home to sleep off the drugs. The nurse said she would have a hangover for about a day and we could tell she was not feeling well. Notice her poor little bruised hands.

We have an appointment with our doctor next week to go over the MRI results.