NO MORE TORTURE PLEASE!!

Well, today was the day we had to take Ammon to Sunrise Hospital In Las Vegas to get a test on his kidneys. The test is called a Mag 3 Renal Scan. Anyway, we were told he needed to be well hydrated and sleep deprived when we got there. He doesn't take a bottle, he won't even suck on it, no way no how, so we kept giving him water through a medicine dropper on the drive down to Vegas. He did pretty good staying awake, I stayed in the back and played with him and stuff. By the time we got to Vegas he was done, he was sooooo ready to fall asleep, but we kept him awake and he was not happy. We finally got to the hospital and had to go to admitting and get all set up and then we made our way to Radiology. The nurse in Radiology was very good and so nice. She explained everything to us and we were ready. He needed to get an IV because they would be putting radioactive fluid in his body and the camera could watch everything that was going on with his kidneys. So, the pediatric nurse came in to do the IV and Cathider :( it all went haywire from there. She was one of the top nurses that do IV's on little babies all the time, but it was not working on Ammon. She tried the IV in his foot. It looked like she was in the vein but blood was not coming out. She tried for a minute and still it was not working. So, she took it out and found a good vein on the other foot. Poked my poor baby again, blood was coming this time and they started to thread the tube on and it wasn't flowing, it wasn't working again. So, they pulled it out again. My poor baby was already screaming by this time. They called the other top nurse in pediatrics and she tried in each hand, still not working. They then called on other departments IV people and the pediatrics Boss man. Nobody could do it. My poor baby. After the fifth time of getting poked they gave us a break and told me to nurse him. I nursed him and his little body was just shaking and shaking. I almost broke down right there and started crying, but I held it in. They tried 3 more times after that. One nurse who did it kept prodding the vein, she first stuck it in and then it wasn't working, so she pulled it slightly out and then put it in a different part of the vein, she kept doing that pulling out slightly and then putting it in, I seriously wanted to slap her! Sorry! 8 IV tries all together, 2 in each hand, 2 in each foot and they still couldn't do it. After calling all the different departments and then they called the "IV team." The Radiology nurse told us if we wanted to be done we could just come back a different day. She gave us a minute to talk about it and I just held my little Ammon and tried to calm him and tell him it was going to be okay. After 3 hours of this craziness, he fell asleep on my shoulder exhausted. Artie and I discussed for a minute what to do, if we should have the "IV team" give it a shot one more time or just call it a day! Ammon fell asleep exhausted on my shoulder and I said, no more! I couldn't let them do it again! I really didn't want to have to say that we'll come back again to try, but I really didn't want to put him through anymore. I wish we could just get the results of the test and know whats going on with his kidneys... I'm really not sure what to do, I don't wanna go back and do that again! But we really need to do this test! As we put our Ammon into the carseat to head home he woke for just a minute and started to cry in a panic, he probably thought we were laying him back on that table so they could strap him down and try again. :( My poor little guy, I so wish I could have gone through all of that for him, I wish they could have poked me 8 times instead of him. I wish he really knew how much we hate to see him go through all of this and want him to be comforted and be okay. I hope he knows we don't want him to hurt. My heart just hurts so much! I'm not looking forward to next time!