Sleep Deprived...

I'm usually one who likes to stay up late, but when your trying to keep a 7 year old awake for a couple of hours past their bedtime, you get tired. Hannah was scheduled to have an EEG on Friday, January 23rd to measure her brain activity. In order for the test to work, she had to be sleep deprived, so that she would sleep during the test. Meaning she had to stay up a couple up hours past her usual bedtime and then wake up at 4:00 in the morning and stay awake until her appointment time at 10:00 a.m. This was not the easiest task. What do you do at 4:00 in the morning to keep a 7 year old from falling back asleep, but at the same time be quiet enough not to wake 3 other sleeping beauties. If you try and watch a movie or play a game, you fall asleep. I'm not sure how, but we both managed to stay awake. Richard and I took her to the doctor's office. We waited for the technician to call us back to the room. When she came to get us, she informed us that the room was small and only one parent could go. So, I gave Richard the camera and told him to take pictures for me. Hannah is not a fan of going to the doctor's, she usually throws a fit or starts to cry. It didn't help that the night before Kaleb told her that she was going to get a big shot and the doctor was going to cut open her brain. So that's why I let Richard go back to the room with her, she doesn't throw a fit as much with him around. About 45 minutes later Richard and Hannah were back in the waiting room. They tried to trick me and they said, Hannah is going to have to come back to retest because she didn't fall asleep. But, that wasn't the case. I don't know how, but she fell asleep a soon as the nurse put the funny looking cap on her head. I really didn't think she would fall asleep that quick. She must of been tired. Today, February 3rd, I took Hannah to the neurologist to review the results of the EEG. After waiting for almost two hours to be seen by the nurse practitioner, I feel like we still got nowhere. The doctor still never ordered the first CT scan to compare with the second CT scan to see the difference in the amount of fluid in her brain. She said the results for the EEG came back abnormal, but it could be a number of things and maybe not even related to the head injury. Why do I have to pay for all these test if they really don't answer any of my concerns. I need some clarity! But, I am thankful that Hannah is doing well. I think she is perfectly normal and healthy, I just want the tests to tell me the same thing! Hannah will have a follow-up appointment in 2 months. Hopefully this will be the last one.

Hannah waiting nervously