Thankful for great news on Maggie's Brain Scan!

Yesterday was Maggie's sedated MRI & appointment with the neurosurgeon up at the Children's Hospital in Portland.  Great news!!... those arachnoid cysts they found way back in November when she had to have a CT scan for the concussion she had (after slipping on the tile & hitting her head) -- were finally followed up on & no surgery is necessary for now! Thank You, Lord!!  It took several months before our pediatrician ever received the CT scan from the hospital.  To be honest, I have no idea what happened there & why her report wasn't sent over sooner.  I can only guess that it was because when the hospital's CT showed she had no internal bleeding from the concussion & deemed fine to just lay low at home, maybe there wasn't seen any reason for concern?  But when our pediatrician down here finally did get it, she said they noted 3 arachnoid cysts - 2 of which were fairly sizable considering how small some can be.  She wanted to refer us to a specialist up in Portland, and after waiting for that slot to arrive, the date got pushed back and finally happened yesterday.  Truly, we felt such peace throughout the entire waiting period of not knowing...  and while I do tend to be a worrier at times, we really were guarded and covered with a lot of grace and peace and sweet prayers from many of you. If you were someone who prayed for Maggie and/or our fam over this anytime during the past several months... thank you, from the bottom of my heart.  It really means so much to us.  Dr. Selden was the neurosurgeon we met with - never met him before the appointment, but read online & figured he knew his stuff.  Harvard grad, Cambridge med school... speaks like 3 languages and has been all over the world as a specialist in pediatric neurology.  That was assuring; I think almost every parent wants to believe the doctor evaluating their child has very sound judgement and a solid expertise.  I think the hardest part was 2-fold: keeping the boys occupied in a hospital setting during the whole thing & watching Maggie go under again - (first time was for her T&A back in Feb)... and not thinking/worrying too much about that until as the anesthesiologist is wheeling her away & telling me, "It's the Michael Jackson medicine."  (my response: "What does that mean?")  Would you believe, he studies my face as if I was born yesterday and slowly answers, "It's the same medicine that he died from that we use to put her under."  I quickly told him, "I wasn't worried before.  Now I am."  He apologized saying a lot of people are concerned when they hear the drug name and followed with just wanting to assure me that someone would be standing right by her side the entire scan (which lasted about an hour)... and that if there were any signs of dropping oxygen or heart rate levels, they could quickly intervene.  Mags came out of the scan with flying colors and was just a little dizzy off n' on throughout the afternoon.  They kept her in a wheelchair for a little bit saying that even though her brain wakes up, her muscles can be a bit slow to follow until the meds work themselves out of her system.  Meeting with the neurosurgeon went pretty quickly; he seemed all business, no small talk... but, since there were no signs of these cysts negatively affecting any of her growth or development, he doesn't see need to operate.  Just wants to follow up with another MRI in 6months to check fluid levels around the cysts to make sure they aren't growing and that nothing about them impairs anything in the next half a year or so.  That next appointment will be around Christmas time.  As for Mags.. she's doing great & all back to normal around here.  ;)  Kind of. ;)