So today was the biopsy for Alexis. She had to miss school so she was really so sad about that...(NOT, that was the reason she was so excited for today) then we went to the doctors office where they gave her some medicine that they said would make her "drunk" and within ten minutes she started to get really giggly and everything was funny, and she said her tongue was furry and fuzzy. She started to say some funny things like, "I want some chips" out of nowhere, and then started trying to walk all over the place and she was falling so we had to try to keep her from getting up and that was a challenge. After about 15 minutes of that they took her to a different room and gave her a shot on her bump that was going to numb everything so she wouldn't feel pain. She started to slur her words and wasn't making a whole lot of sense and she would not hold still. I wish they would have had some sort of a seat belt so she wouldn't be able to get up because that is all she wanted to do. So for the next 45 minutes we just had to keep her from flopping of the table and try to get her to hold still. Then I had the idea to have her talk on the phone to her dad to see if she could hold still and it worked but it made her start to cry when she told him that she wanted him and she missed him. After that her emotions were all over the place and she couldn't stop crying. At one point I asked her what was wrong and she just said "I'm scared" that really made me feel horrible and tear up myself.
The doctor finally came in and the first shot he did she turned her head really hard right into the needle and made it start to bleed really bad. It was not a great start. After that he had to do about seven more needles to try and get something out. I thought there would be some sort of fluid that would come out but with every needle and when he would pull it out to suck something out... nothing would come out. So he was having a very hard time getting a sample or piece of it. But on the last one he felt like he got something.
The bump had softened up from the last time he had looked at it and he said he felt a lot better about it and it didn't worry him as much.
It really had softened up overnight because when I felt it and looked at it Sunday morning it had not changed at all. But I know that with all the fasting, prayers, and her blessing we were blessed with some sort of a little miracle. I felt so much peace at her appointment and just have a feeling that everything is going to be alright. It was so weird fasting on Sunday for something that I had such a desire for. I didn't feel hungry or feel like I was missing out on any food at all....(that is a first for me) I know we had a lot of family and friends worried and praying for us and I just feel like they have helped out in every-way.
We will get a call in the next day or two and find out what the biopsy shows. Then we will know what to do next but if it continues to change and soften up... best thing possible it will just go away on its own.
I took this picture a little after they gave her the drugs and she had started to get really silly.
After the procedure she couldn't walk at all so she was able to ride in the wheelchair. If you can look at her smile and notice it is a little crooked... that worried me for a little while. When she talked and everything for a couple hours after they were done it was a little crooked and I wondered if he had damaged a nerve or something. But it seems to be back to normal now.
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