Addisyn's 1st Laser Therapy!

This is the last picture I took of Brysen and Addisyn before her laser therapy The very last picture taken before her therapy began
After
Right side after..she doesn't look very happy here...

John, Addisyn and I made the journey to San Francisco yesterday for her very first laser therapy at UCSF! When we arrived in San Francisco we checked into The Ronald McDonald House. We were both very impressed with the house. We were placed in a room all the way up on the 3rd floor and had to carry all of our luggage, stroller, carseat and food with us up and down the stairs. They have no elevator! We definetly got a workout going up and down all day long. They had pizza delivered last night so we went downstairs to have dinner and ended up chit chatting with some of the other parents that are staying at the house long term. After eating dinner we went back up to our room for the rest of the night and just played with Addisyn and took some last minute before pictures of her and went to bed.

We had to get up early as Addisyn had to be at UCSF at 6:30 am. As most of you know there is no parking in San Francisco so we had to park 4 blocks away in the Kaisesr Parking garage. I felt so funny walking through San Francisco with our suitcases and everything else we had with us. LOL... Anyway we arrived at UCSF and made our way to the Ambulatory Surgery Center where we had to wait for what seemed like forever before they called us back. We must have met with 10 people that all were going to have some part in Addisyn's treatment. They allowed John and I to go back into the treatment room where I held Addisyn until she was completely asleep with the gas mask. John and I were told to go back to the waiting room and they would send someone out to get us once she was in the recovery room. I think we waited for about 30 minutes and it actually went really fast.

I started to get nervous as we were walking through to the recovery room. John and I had prepared ourselves for the worst and I think we are both glad we did because she looked a lot better than we thought. Of course it was still very shocking but we thought it would be much worse. Our precious baby girl went into the treatment with the Red face that she has had since the day she was born and came out with a face that was completely bruised. Her face was a Purplish Black color with some swelling. Even though it wasn't as bad as we thought it still broke my heart to see her face so much different than it has been for the last 8 months and all I could think was I just wanted to go back to yesterday when she was happy and had a Red face....

Anyway, Addisyn took quite a while to wake up and when she did she was not happy! We were given our instructions for the next few weeks and sent on our way. For the next two weeks we have to keep Vaseline on her face at all times. The Dr. said that it will take 2-3 weeks for the brusing to go away and it could take up to 6 weeks to see any results from this treatment.

Her face is swollen and she is more tired than usual but she is doing great! We are looking forward to seeing the results in the next month or two and heading back to San Francisco in September for the next laser therapy... I will keep everyone updated here on her healing and fading. Keep looking for new pictures...