Three days in the hospital and the results are good.
EEG clear. MRI clear.
This means we don’t know anymore than we did on Sunday, but we do know what it isn’t, and at this point, that’s major.
I’m not going to bore you with every detail of the stay, but I do have a few things to say.
First of all, the bravery of Baby Monkey leaves me speechless and moves me to tears.
Despite the fact that he is terrified of loud noises (remember this post?) he didn’t even flinch when they hooked him up to the 20 EEG wires with glue and a loud dryer. He just lay there, like this…
..and occasionally made silly faces like this…
Once the wires were on and the head was wrapped in bandages and he was tethered to the wall for three days, his smile never left his face. He stayed busy with the toys they brought him and the books and game we brought from home.
QUICK PLUG FOR HOSPITAL FOOD
So, let’s be honest…any food that I don’t have to prepare tastes fabulous.
However, the food at this hospital was unbelievable.
Here’s Baby Monkey and his breakfast from Day 2. Waffles covered in whipped cream with strawberries, bacon, vanilla yogurt, an orange, milk, blueberry muffin, orange juice, and corn flakes.
And here’s my lunch from the same day. Is this not one of the most beautiful fruit platters you’ve ever seen?
Yeah, it was all fantabulous.
Back to our regularly scheduled brag about Baby Monkey.
On day 3 when they used a very smelly solvent and scissors to get it all off of his head, he smiled his way through it.
Every doctor and nurse and hospital staff member that he came in contact with said that he was the most laid-back, best behaved patient they had ever treated. They couldn’t believe that, at 3, he took it all in stride. I was so freaking proud of that boy. Particularly when they couldn’t find a vein for the IV and they just kept jabbing away until they got it and while he didn’t smile at that, he also didn’t make a fuss. Just snuggled into Mommy and dealt.
And, of course, in the end, he smiled all the way home.
