Jarom's Tests

Jarom at PHX Children's Hospital for EEG

March 16th.  All hooked up and ready to sleep:)

Sometime in December Jarom began having awful headaches.  We are hoping they are just migraines.  Dr. Bhakoo ordered an MRI in January and the results showed an enlarged right ventricle and a shadow he didn't like and it was the recommendation of the radiologist to see a neurologist.  Finally we got an appointment on Feb 28th with Dr. Alarcio and she felt he needed another MRI  to compare with contrast in it and then an EEG.  This is the EEG over Spring Break which is good because he had to be sleep deprived for this test.  He went to bed at 12:15am and got up at 4:38am because our alarms didn't go off right.  He was plenty sleep deprived and so were we:)  We are waiting for the results of this test.

Today, March 21st, was his set of MRI's.  He was excited to miss school and nervous about the IV for the contrast.  We got to PHX Children's Specialty Clinic and the tech told us he may not have to have the contrast if the radiologist thought the MRI looked good.  This is different than what Dr. Alarcio told us so we'll see how this plays out.  After about 25 mninutes in the MRI Jarom began to cry and bite his lip.  He finally pushed the emergency button and said his head hurt terribly.  After getting him to lay back down he pushed the button again a little while later.  The tech was patient but told him he had to wait for the end of the 3 minutes to finish the 15 minute series or restart.  This time I gave him ibuprofen and they brought him juice and I held the cold cup to his head but he didn't feel much better. 

The whole time I was praying he could do it and when he said his own prayer he felt peace and knew he'd make it even though it was painful.  It was very hard to watch and not be able to take the pain away.  The tears slid down the sides of his face as he lay there.  My prayers were for him to be able to stand the pain so we didn't have to do this again.  Sweet boy.  I love my Jarom!

Jarom was able to finish and the radiologist thought he didn't need contrast.  We hope this is the end of the MRI's.  We are waiting for these results now as well.

He began to feel better after lunch and did go back to school.