in doctor language, "invasive" = "painful"

Damian's back injury saga continues...

On Thursday he had a Myelogram, which the doctor told him was "an invasive procedure." We rightly concluded that what he was nicely saying, in his own doctorly way, was that it was going to hurt. But Damian survived, he's recovering well, and we'll find out the results this Thursday.

The nurse thought my sense of humor must be a bit off, since I was taking pictures. She's right. Ha. This one is Dame right before going in. It's a nervous smile.

He had dye injected into his spinal fluid and then had x-rays taken. They did it to get a good idea of what's going on in order to decide whether or not to do surgery. I guess the worse case scenario would be that they say there's nothing further they can do for him and that's it. He'll just have to live with the pain. But we'll see. Who would have though that we'd be hoping that they find something wrong?! On the other hand, back surgery is scary too. Poor Dame. I just want him to be fixed one way or the other. It's hard to see him in pain all the time.

Anyway, with all that said... our "quote of the morning" is when the nurse decided to entertain us while waiting for the doctor. She said, "While we're waiting for the doctor, I'll show you my tattoo since that's entertaining!" We were relieved to see that it was on her leg! Ha.