Roller Coaster

When I arrived at the hospital, they informed me that Lawson was about to go down for his CT scan. I was surprised, since I didn't know he was even going to have a CT scan. Once they got me calmed down and convinced me that it was a good thing (He was stable enough for the test.) I noticed there was a razor laying near his bed. When I inquired as to it's presence, they told me they had to shave a patch of hair for his IV!! I lifted the blanket they had over his head to block the light and realized there was an IV in his head!!! Of course, it took several more minutes to explain and calm me down from that shock. In order to go through a CT scan, the patient must have an IV and they couldn’t find a good vein in his hand or foot so they put it in his head. OK, fair enough. So they asked if I wanted to escort them downstairs to radiology. Lawson's doctor and I chatted as we walked down and I warmed up to the idea of the CT scan, just so we could start to get answers.

The doctor and I waited out in the waiting room while Lawson and his team were in the radiology room. After a while, the doctor decided to pop into the control room to see if he could see anything. He was gone for a while and when he returned I quickly asked if he knew anything. “The short answer is no,” was his reply. What had actually happened, was that radiology said the IV had to be in the hand; the head IV was unacceptable. The radiologist tried to put it into his hand, as did his doctor, to no avail. So basically, Lawson had his head shaved, an IV put into his head, was unhooked from his machines, moved through the hospital, and generally disturbed for no reason! Within minutes of returning to his room they found a doctor who could put the IV into his hand. Grrrr. . . The plan is to have the CT tomorrow.