Scarlet was scheduled for her first EEG this Monday to rule out the possibility of siezures. She was having these strange "Spells" as my Mamaw would say. She would stare blankly, salivate excessively and look like she was choking. They would last for about 30 seconds before she would come back around. We were naturally concerned. She has displayed similar behaviour about a year ago for a brief period. This time the "spells" were also of a brief duration... about a week. The EEG results confirmed that she was not having any mini siezures. That was good news!! As to the mystery of the "spells", well for now we are still in the dark. I am just glad she has stopped having them.
I am always amazed by Scarlet's ability to endure medical procedures. She was such a little trooper. At first she quite liked it as the technician measured out her head and marked the appropriate places in red pencil. It was kind of like going the beauty parlor, a nice head message, a chatty lady, but her affiinity to this new kind of head message quickly abated when the glue and tape came out. Like so many things, it started out with wonderfully happy music in the background, a t.v. playing tree house non-stop, then the record warped and faces turned green.
These annoying little nodes had to be attached for a long period of time, 20 minutes to be exact. Mom and that pesky technician kept insisting that she could in no way touch or play with the nodes or attached wires. To make matters worse, there were nodes that had to be attached to the side of her face with glue and tape, those were exceptionaly irksome. It was at the attachment of the side-of-the-face nodes that Scarlet decided that she had indeed had enough. She wanted out and tree-house was no longer so interesting.
Note to anyone awaiting an EEG....if you complain enough, you get to have two t.v.s on. One playing Dora and the other playing some annoying little blue creatures. After some effort at removing the nodes, several attempts at which she proved successful, Scarlet succomed to the octopus of a mommy that held her arms tightly and convinced her that sitting still was a great option after all. She eventually agreed and gave us no more grief for the remainder of the 20 minutes.... I think someone must have been praying!
We will get the full results at our next doctors visit in the new year, but for now, I am glad that the glue washed out and that there are no more forseeable EEG's in our future (not to mention an absence of little blue creatures).
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