continuing on with Jovie’s appointments – an EEG that was scheduled today for 8:30am at the Prince of Wales Hospital at Randwick.
for this particular EEG, she had to be sleep deprived, which means I was going to be sleep deprived too! her usual bed time is 8-9pm but we managed to stretch it to 11pm and she woke at about 1am aswell. (they ask you to do this so that you’re likely to fall asleep during your test as needed).
being that we live over in the north west and peak hour traffic to the city is HORRID, we woke her up at 5:30am, headed off at 5:45am and thankfully cruised through the traffic all the way to the city, under the harbour and over to Randwick. arriving at 6:30am, dad (who came with Jovie and I) and I sat in the children’s hospital for a coffee and to feed Jo some brekkie. (she was sooo happy – I’ll have to upload the video from my iPad!)
the time passed pretty quickly and we walked into our appointment right on time. they got me to sit on the reclining chair with Jovie on my lap, and expertly placed the 21 sensors on various places of her head. thank goodness for the stretchy cap they put on her head, i think she would of rubbed all 21 of those things off in 2 minutes flat.
one of the first things they tested her with was a strobe light – which is supposed to trigger seizures etc and they can measure her brain waves. another test is a loud noise to react too and i’m sure there was other stuff but i was too busy trying to keep that darn cap and sensors on her head, lol.
the room that we was in was specially decorated for kid’s – there wasn’t a bare inch of wall anywhere! i spotted twilight posters, XENA, cars, wiggles, animal charts, monkeys hanging from the ceiling and anything else you could think of that might entertain a kid for a little while. i think that kind of room is either going to be reallly awesome, or a sensory overload!
after 45 minutes, Jovie didn’t drift off to sleep as planned but we flipped through her favourite book & grandpa fed her cookies to keep her calm and then everything was done. we don’t get the results until we see the paediatrician in July (unless there’s something wrong and he’ll call me earlier) and while i was looking at the charts as they showed up the technicians computer, i have no idea how she went.. fingers crossed!
