February 15, 2008 - CT scan day for SRS on Monday

Today is the CT scan day! We arrived at CSU Vet School at 8:00am. Dr. Barb Billers listened to Mati's heart and lungs and said that it was a go. At 9:00am Mati was taken back to the anesthesia room and put in the oxygen chamber for 30 minutes. Then she was put under anesthesia and moved to the CT scan room. There they made a mouth mold, a head net harness and a foam pad to go under her chest and head. This was all done so that they could strap her down to the CT scan bed. This is important because these will be used to hold Mati in place when she has her SRS treatment. Then they did the CT scan. This took about 1.5 hours to do. The CT scan is used by the radiation machine to do the planning for the SRS radiation. After the CT scan Mati was taken back to the anesthesia room to wake up. When she came out of anesthesia and then put in the oxygen chamber to help her get oxygen. Around 1pm Mati came back to the human waiting room and was given to me to hold and allow her to recover and wake up. Around 4:00pm we left the CSU vet school and went back to the hotel. When we got home Mati seemed to have forgotten that she was just out of anesthesia and decided that she wanted to eat dinner and then go walking. She was very happy that night and seemed just fine.