Neurologist and MRI

T2 had his MRI. That boy did SOOOOO good. He was anxious - as any little boy would be. But, we stopped at QuikTrip - where some douchebag smashed his head in the door, but that's a different story all together- and got him some after MRI Cheetos bribe. We got to St. Francis and they had to get all of our insurance stuff straightened out and his forms filled out and his bracelets on, you know, the typical processing stuff. Well then we got back to radiology where the tech greeted us with a syringe and sound loudly that they had ordered contrast and that he was going to be Okay with an IV right? T2 is a clever little fellow and caught JUST enough of that to know what it meant and started to SCREAM like a pig being slaughtered. He HATES needles of any kind. He screams when *I* get my allergy shots. It takes 4 nurses to hold him down for his flu shots. So. No. The long and short of it is that contrast via IV probably isn't gonna happen.

But the tech was really great about it. She told him that it was ok, as long as he held really, really still and they got good pictures - they wouldn't have to. And she was good on her word. T2 held perfectly still the entire 20 minutes. He laid on his hands to keep from grabbing the things hold his head in, he didn't wiggle, flinch, squirm, or anything then entire time. And she didn't force the contrast issue.

We then went to the Pediatric Neurologist this morning. The neurologist was super nice. And now we have a headache plan. He's to double his atenolol for 2 weeks. IF that doesn't make a significant difference take him off of that and he gave us a script for something else to try. We go back in 6 weeks. He also has to go in about a month for an EEG to test for a certain kind of migraine. This is gonna be special because he's got to be sleep deprived. Go to bed at midnight and be awake by 5. Oy. Ah well. But it's a plan at least.