6th Sept 2010 33+3wks 12.10lb
OMG!!!! Check that out! 13oz gain in 6 days??? In act when i saw the weight on the scales it was in KG and i thought I read it wrong!! Surely that's not right???
So today is the day. We had to be at St Georges at 8.30am, Reagan couldn't eat for 4 hrs prior.
I thought that was going to be hard going because she rarely goes that long between feeds but it was absolutely fine! Phew, first hurdle!
So they come round and talk us through the procedure, once shes asleep they put a needle into her hip bone round the back and draw out some none marrow, which looks like frothy blood, then they insert another needle and take a little bit of bone. They also want to take some blood to be sent off for chromosome testing- this is to see if she has a mutation of the gene i was talking about. If she does then we know for sure that she has DBA (diamond blackfan anaemia)
So we walk her down to theatre and Alex has to wait outside. She just sits on my knee playing with a ball they gave her. They hold the gas in front of her face with NO mask on it. She tried to have a little play with it but didn't protest when we pulled h hands away.
She was very calm and relaxed which made it a million times easier. Then she fell asleep and i laid her on the bed.
We were given a bleeped and told we would be bleeped when she woke up which would be about an hr. This was at 9.30am.
So at 10.15am we went to wait outside the recovery room. We saw Dr Pilidis come out and she informed us that she got everything she needed and it was all straight forward, and she would be brought round shortly.
She was carried round by a nurse because she had woken up before even making it to recovery and cried a little. I thought that was really sweet of her!
She cried quite a bit and fed quite a bit before falling into a deep sleep for 2 hrs.
When she woke up she just as she always is and didn't seem any the worse for her ordeal!
Shes such a trooper, bless her.
All her observations were fine and we were allowed home!!
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