Friday, March 6, 2009 2nd post

Hi all, sorry for the delay. It was just a real long day yesterday and we were ready for bed long before we actually went to bed. The day started off with the alarm going off at 6:30 am. We had to be at the Mayo Clinic at 7:15 to sign in for Makayla to have an Echocardiogram. They wanted to check her heart and make sure the fevers she had a year ago didn't do any damage to it. She laid there for about an hour watching Kung Fu Panda while they did an Ultrasound on her heart. She doesn't like the ultrasound jelly they use. She says it feels too funny. Our next appointment was a 9:30 at St. Mary's Hospital about 2 miles from the Mayo Clinic for the sedation MRI. We took a patient shuttle to the Hospital. We were able to check right in, but then they didn't get to her until about 11:00. It was pretty rough watching them put her to sleep. She didn't like the mask on her face so she really threw a fit and started crying. She had a look on her face as they were putting her to sleep to say, "Why are you doing this to me." She looked so sad. We both felt really bad. It is too bad that we have to go through all of this to make her healthy. The good thing was when she woke up she didn't remember feeling so betayed. The MRI took about an hour to complete. We just hung out in the lobby. After she woke up enough we took the shuttle back to The Ronald McDonald House and rested for a while. Makayla got hungry and we went looking for a Restaurant to eat at. We found this place called the Canadian Honker. Of course we had to stop because of the funny name. The food was real good. We then went back and watched High School Musical on the big sceen in the community room and went to bed.