Mommy: Our first trip to Children's

The next morning we fought our way through DC traffic and got to Children's National, which is HUGE by the way! It makes sense as it's one of the best pediatric hospitals in the country. Cambria did really well with drinking the contrast:

 and even did pretty good getting the IV...the only thing that really upset her was the lack of formula. The contrast calmed her enough that she was able to sleep through the CT, which made any sedation unnecessary. Then she was allowed her formula and all was right in her little world. The radiology folks tried to send us along our way, but we hadn't heard more from our pediatrician, so we called her, and she said to “hangout for a little while, she was working on something” So we took a stroll around the hospital, which Cambria thought was a BLAST as there were lots of strangers to coo at her and tell her how adorable she was (her favorite activity next to eating)

Then we got a call telling us to meet someone up in *gulp* oncology. Now, this wasn't a formal appointment, it was just something our pediatrician was able to rig... but this really sweet doctor named Dr. Meany came out, and had us follow her back where she was able to wrangle a room for us to talk in. There she told us that she only got a "quick glance" at the CT so far, and it could be a number of things, but worst case, if it *was* cancer, it had a lot in common with something called Neuroblastoma, which luckily is super treatable and they can make it "gone for good." She also did a quick exam, and she told us that it was "shocking and impressive" that our pediatrician had noticed the mass in such a happy baby with no symptoms. Now, as much as everyone was saying "we don't know what this is", the fact that the only possibility they named was cancer had definitely freaked us out.  

While we were there, she also wanted to start a urine test... which for a 4 month old is a pretty funny process. You literally put an absorbent pad in her diaper and hope you have good timing. That's it. (Very complicated and technical procedure!)

The only thing for us to do at this point, was to go home and wait for the doctors to look at the CT and get the urine results.