busy week

It's been a busy week (at work and with appointments!).

• Opthamologist
  A week before we discovered the brain tumour - Stefan had been to see the optometrist.  It was pretty routine - and Stefan's vision is great - but there was one test that set off red flags.  A beam was sent into each eye, and Stefan was supposed to push a button for each beam.  On his left eye - he got most of the beams, when they did his right eye - he asked "when are we starting" but the test was done - ie. he didn't pick up any.  The optometrist had also said there was some swelling behind the eye.  He referred him to a specialist.  The appointment was the first week of January at St. Pauls - we ended up cancelling it - as we had discovered the reason for the swelling
  
  This Monday - Stefan got a call reminding him of an appointment Tuesday - this was news to us!  An Opthamologist near metrotown.  I guess the optometrist put in the referral to two different spots to see who could see him sooner (kudos to him!).  Well this time, instead of cancelling - Stefan told them his situation - and they said they would still like to see him
  
  Long story short - if the MRI hadn't happened December 17th - the first Opthamologist appointment would have sent him to ER due to the swelling behind his eyes (my lecture of this blog: Go see an optometrist!).  Stefan has a couple follow up appointments with the Opthamologist (I guess they will just monitor his eyes to make sure there is no damage - but I'm guessing!)
• MRI
  We finally got an MRI appointment.  We had originally been told they wanted to get Stefan in by the 27th - and we were losing hope of that - but we got the call today - Stefan goes for his MRI tomorrow at 5pm!
• Charlotte
  We have Charlotte's follow up appointment with the pediatrician Friday morning, and then her follow up with the infant development consultant Friday afternoon.

Whew!  I'm tired just writing this.  It's also been a busy week at work - looking forward to it calming down next week!