Ultrasound and Superstitions

Wednesday we made the trip to Children's Hospital Central California for Delaney's ultrasound. This test was to look for spina bifida because of an abnormal crease on her bottom.
The day started out nice with early morning pumpkin spice lattes and an easy 1 1/2 hour drive... nothing compared to our Stanford trips! Garrett and I have decided that we must be some kind of magnet for interesting people. As we were waiting in the packed radiology waiting room a man and woman with a little girl came and sat next to us. After hearing all about the little girls medical problems, the man asked us if we believed in superstitions. I answered "Um no not really", but that didn't seem to stop him. He proceeded to tell me that we all have a light inside of us or an auora and the woman that was with him (we still cant figure out how he was related to the woman) wanted to hold Delaney so that she could take on her sickness and heal her. There was a little bit of a language barrier so I asked answered with a puzzled look, "What?" He went on to explain usually in his culture they used one egg and some herbs, but she wanted to hold the baby to heal her. I quickly looked to Garrett to see if he had some kind of way to get us out of this, but of course he pretended to be looking at something very important across the room and refused to make eye contact. Thanks. So without wanting to hurt the woman's feelings, who was very sweet by the way, I handed her Delaney. She smiled gave her a couple kisses and then Delaney even realized this is too weird and started crying. After more interesting stories from the man, our name was finally called. We hurried to meet the nurse and gave each other a look of relief and of course started laughing.
The ultrasound went well. Delaney was such a good girl! She held still and only cried a couple times. The doctor told us that they she is right at the cut off age limit for being able to detect spina bifida with an ultrasound, so he recommended an MRI for a definitive answer. However, he did say he didn't think he saw anything and she doesn't seem to have any problems with development at this point. So our next big adventures are physical therapy on Monday and in a couple weeks Delaney will have her MRI and we will find out what the next step will be as far as treatment for her liver mass.
Oh, and as we left the hospital Garrett and I were walking out the door as a man dressed like a samurai warrior walked in. Garrett mumbled under his breath, "Bow to your sensei." We are discovering interesting people hang out around children's hospitals.