Well, I know not many people visit my blog but I'll post this anyway. I think my sister-in-law is the only one who visits since she's not on facebook to check my pictures like our parents. So, Wendy, this is for you:) It's not easy to "post" this as a status update on facebook anyway.
Hannah has an EEG this Thursday. I need to sleep deprive her Wednesday night so she'll sleep through the test. I probably won't get results until our follow up visit with the neurologist on August 2nd. I'm assuming we'll find out the results of her EKG & blood work at that time too.
Back story for anyone who may happen to stop by and not know why she's needing a neurologist:
Hannah "may" have had a seizure on the flight coming home from Orlando last month. Or, she may have fainted as she has fainted twice before in her life. A couple symptoms made me fear seizure and she went to the pediatrician who referred us to a neurologist. The neurologist sent her for blood work at which she nearly fainted-although I was expecting that. She also had an EKG that same day. That went surprisingly quick. We finally have the EEG scheduled for this week.
It wasn't the best ending to an otherwise fun trip but at least it happened right before landing. It was almost painful for me to wait to get off the plane since we were in the last row of the plane. I don't even know what Todd thought seeing us come out with her in a wheelchair. After a 4 hour delay leaving Orlando, arriving in Phoenix at 1am, & getting to bed at 3am, it was more like 6am according to our bodies on Florida time. Our flight was a little turbulent and a screaming toddler made sure no one got any sleep. We had been up for nearly 24 hours. We had spent most of Sunday out in the humid heat touring the Disney hotels & outside of some parks. We didn't hydrate as much as we should have & for Hannah to not drink a lot of water, well, that's a recipe for ???
So she was dehydrated & sleep deprived. She had a busy time with some anxiety over the competition. These were all factors the doctors were interested in.
Waiting is not my specialty. Waiting for the referrals to go through. Waiting for doctors to call back & set things up. Waiting for that visit where we should have results. Ugh. I think she'll be okay during the EEG. I hope she'll be able to sleep because I don't want to "wait" to get another appointment. The prayers that I would covet are that when we get results, they tell us nothing is wrong-that she's just a "fainter".
Hannah was embarrassed about the whole situation but her biggest concern was whether she could still audition for "The Tortoise & the Hare". We were supposed to be home by 9:30pm Sunday night & the audition was Monday morning at 10am. Plenty of time to get rest, right? She didn't want a stinking doctor appointment to interfere with the audition. After getting to bed at 3am and the worst flight of my life, she still made it to the audition, snagged a part she liked, & made it to the doctor.
An interesting part of this story is the kids have been uninsured for several years. A couple months ago we were notified that the state was re-opening Kidscare & of course I applied. They became eligible June 1st and I mailed our first payment the day before we left for Florida. God's timing cannot be matched!
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