Day 3.....with an EEG

Today began for the entire family at 6:45am. We woke Aspynne up the same time Addyson gets up to get ready for school. Aspynne wasn't too thrilled about being up so early, but was finally pursuaded by her high chair and the promise of some num nums. She ate great and played for a while, but by 8:30am, she was tired, cranky and ready for bed. Only problem is....she wasn't allowed to sleep. She had to have 8 hours of awake time prior to her EEG at 3pm. Yay.

Whitney took Aspynne to the mall where she "played like a champ," and strolled around the mall for a while. I met them for lunch at McD's, where she ate great, and again played very well for quite some time. We left for Cook's just before 1:30pm, and Aspynne was a wreck. She had been trying to fall asleep in the car on the way home from the mall...how in the world were we going to get to Ft. Worth with her awake? Well, I sat in the back with her, and fed her. The whole way there. :)

We arrived at Cook's around 2:30pm, got checked in, and waited for them to call us in for the EEG. Right at 3pm, they got us, and we headed to the procedure room (which was NOTHING like the last one we had, might I add. I guess there's something to be said for having things done in Plano....) Anyway, Aspynne was NOT cooperative this time when the tech wanted to measure and draw all over her head, clean the spots and then glue, yes glue, the nodes to her scalp. She screamed bloody murder the entire time, and seeing that there are 21 brain nodes plus one on each cheek and one on both sides of her chest, the entire time was nothing shy of FOREVER.

After all the nodes were attached, her head was wrapped up, and we were ready to begin. She had to lay on her back while they flashed a stobe light in her face. I guess it was irritating enough that she closed her eyes to try to avoid it. Closing her eyes made her realize how tired she was, and she started to wail again. Oh, joy. After the strobing was over, it was time to try to get her to sleep. They need part of the EEG to be done while she is asleep, which is why we had to sleep deprive her...to "ensure" that she would fall asleep. Being the fantastic mommy that I am, I laid down on the hospital bed, flipped her up on my chest, hugged her and her night night baby nice and tight, and she was out....in seconds. She slept quietly and peacefully for about 20 minutes, then the tech flipped on the lights and said it was time to wake her up (since some of the study also must be done awake). I'm sure you can imagine how happy she was to be awake.

10 minutes of awake time and we were done with the study. The tech unwrapped her head, soaked it, and then proceeded to pull the tape and glue-covered nodes out of her hair. Once again...we had an unhappy baby. I felt so badly putting her through this again, but she really was a trooper. She is so strong.

As for her medication, it's hard to say if it affected her at all today, because while she was cranky, mad and quite angry...she would have been that way due to the lack of sleep, medication or not. So...I don't think it's affecting her. At least not for now. She is precious.

Now, she sleeps peacefully upstairs in her bed, and Bob and I finally sit down to take a breather. It's been quite a day. We most likely because of the holiday weekend won't hear EEG results until Tuesday. I will, of course, let all of you know as soon as I find out.