Plan D

How do you get a child, who is refusing all treatment, to have an MRA scan?

Plan A: Sedate them.
Problem: Won't take the medicine orally.

Plan B: Put the two sedatives in two Petits filous, one raspberry and one peach.
Problem: May taste the difference and refuse to eat them.
Further problem: child may never eat yogurt again!

Plan C: Give a different sedative using the line already inserted in her wrist.
Problem: She may be so attuned to danger that the moment you lift her onto the table of the MRA machine she will wake up screaming.

Plan D: General anesthetic

As you may have guested we had a few hitches with the sedation approach to getting R's MRA scan done today. Even sedated R was still alert whenever and doctors tried to do anything to her!

Once safely back in her room she slept soundly for a couple of hours but was still obviously very cross with everyone when I left earlier to come home and see S & A.

So it seems that the only option left now is to make a list of all the things they want to do and to see whether they can all be done at GOSH, all at once, under a general anesthetic. Whether that will all be possible tomorrow or not, I hope to find out when I go back to the hospital a little later.

When I arrived at the hospital this morning R was continuing to make good progress, playing with toys, doing some writing and colouring, watching Cinderella videos...