MRI

We are going back down to Utah, Alyvia has an MRI early Monday morning. It is a follow up MRI to make sure that the tumor isn't growing back. Alyvia's tumor was the lowest grade and not cancerous, however, they can grow back. Hopefully not this soon (actually hopefully not ever!) if it does grow back soon then it would most likely be treated with chemo or radiation. Hopefully we won't ever have to go there.

I am a little nervous...Livie has had numerous CT scans (they only last a few minutes, but they don't show as much as an MRI) an MRI lasts 45 min to an hour and Livie will have to hold perfectly still in a tiny enclosed space....yeah right. So she will need to be sedated...but Alyvia does NOT sedate well and usually sedation causes her to stop breathing (which happened during her last MRI and she had to be "bagged" in the middle of it...needless to say we didn't get any MRI results.) This time everyone is aware of Alyvia and her "issues" with breathing so Livie will do the MRI under general anesthesia. Everything should go well, I just get nervous. I guess it's because I still remember the MRI when the doctor came in and said that Alyvia had a tumor in her brain stem. In an instant our lives were changed forever.

We are sooo grateful though, that the tumor in Alyvia's brain stem was not cancerous. After everything that has happened to Livie, it has really given me a new perspective on life. Which is why I love this quote: "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." Marcus Aurelius