Post PET scan

Andrew is all done with his PET scan.  He took his knew friend "Harpy" a stuffed Harp Seal (ain't we creative on names?) that his wonderful cousins sent with him.  We joked with the nurse that he brought his stuffed "pet" for the PET scan.  They put him under using laughing gas.  It was a little bit different than other times they have seduated him.  I guess I should really be keeping track of which type they use, how he reacts, etc.  Today he chatted with us for a couple of minutes.  I held the mask in place and watched as his eyes went blood shot within about 10 seconds.  The nurses and the anesthesiology made some jokes and then one of the nurses comes over and places her hands on his abdomen.  Two seconds later he was almost gone and she calls the other two over, Andrew starts fighting and tries to get up and then just sags back down onto the table.  She comments that happens often just as they slip off.  I guess it just shows how thick my skin is that I just said, "Huh" and walked off.  Afterward I wondered why I did not get more of a heads up, but no big deal.

It took a couple of hours (an hour or so longer than I thought it would) but they called me back.  When I got back to recovery I was surprised to see how "with it" he was only to realize he was not very with it yet.  We chatted a bit while we waited for him to feel up to dressing.  The nurse went over his "after-care" instructions.  She was telling us how he should go home and lay down, not eat greasy foods, etc.  I chuckled and told her this was the third time in the last month he had been sedated and I knew he wanted to go straight for the cafeteria and have a slice of pepperoni pizza.  She continued to go over how gentle we should be with him.  I continued to smile and tell her that we follow his lead.  She stopped at that point.  We asked them to not give him any anti-nausea medicine (Zofran) as it seemed to precipitate the vomiting last time.  They did not give him any and he did great!

Right now he is just hanging out playing video games.  He did fall asleep on the way home, so next time I need to make him more comfortable and hook up the familiar music faster.  I did not think of that until we were half way home (he was looking a bit sleepy) so I turned on some Reba and off he went!