On the morning of her scan, Niamh wasn't feeling very well. We were told to try and keep her awake so that the sedation would work better but all she wanted to do is sleep. She needed to drink three syringes worth of sedation. She hardly took them that she vomited most if not all. She went to sleep anyway.
During the whole MRI Scan (which lasts about 45 minutes and is incredibly noisy), we sat near the machine, scared that she would wake up. Half way through the scan, the radiographer came in to put some contrast fluid down the cannula. Unfortunately the cannula was not working. He told us he could try and put a new cannula in, knowing that she may wake up. He said that for Niamh's scan she really did need the contrast. If she did wake up then we would need to come back and complete the scan another day, no pressure!
He successfully put a cannula in, and was able to finish the scan as planned.
We hardly went back upstairs, that the nurses came to tell us that we had to go to Ward 10 and someone would be speaking to us. In the meantime, we picked up a message on our mobile from Dr Sunderland saying that they now knew the cause of Niamh's problems and that our consultant would now be Mr Walsh.
When we walked into Ward 10, we still did not know what was wrong with Niamh but seeing all the children with bandages over their heads, it was clear that whatever it was, she was going to have brain surgery.
So all in all, we were lucky that the MRI Scan was completed without Niamh waking up and extremely lucky that it was brought forward. However we were very unluckly as Niamh has a very very large tumour in the middle of her brain.
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