EEG Update

Hannah had her EEG this morning and wasn't nervous at all. She was definitely sleep deprived. She stayed up all night/morning till it was time to go. Joshua stayed up with her for most of the time while I went to bed at 1am. He was asleep when I came downstairs at 6am. It turns out last night was a good night for her to be up all night. With the monsoon storm she wouldn't have been able to sleep anyway.

The whole test lasted about 45 minutes & I won't know any details until the August 2nd appointment. She had 25 thingies attached to her head with some sort of adhesive so the first thing she did when we got home was shower. She just got up from a nap on the bean bag chair. She's fine-just tired from her all-nighter.

Hannah Update (sort of)

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!

God's Girlz -one last time

 The girlz with their various team/individual awards.

 Hannah and her awards.

The United States shaped plaque on top is the Nationals 37th place plaque.

Below that from left to right is:

3rd place team over the regular season

1st place at State

Regionals ribbon

5th place at Regionals 

Pretty cool stuff.

God's Girlz had one more get together to receive their plaques & scrapbook pictures from their season-beginning to end. Bittersweet. The girls had a fun & busy journey as they hid God's word in their hearts & made lasting friendships (I hope).  Hannah is undecided if she wants to do Teen Bible Quiz. She wants to officiate for JBQ so we'll see what actually happens.

4th of July & 15th anniversary-Woo Hoo

 Our beauty

 Lunch at Applebee's on the 4th of July

 Store bought cake to celebrate 15 years!

At Luke watching their fireworks show.

Here's a few pictures from the 4th of July AKA our anniversary. 15 years! We had a good day despite the rain. We actually enjoyed the rain. It was the first anniversary that was cold. 

We went to lunch at Applebee's because my Mom gave us a gift card & when we got there we found out kids ate free that day. Score! 

We had plans to go to another one of those family free fun days at the base pool. We weren't sure if the pool would be open with all that rain but we checked it out anyway. It was a typical crowd which was surprising but we swam in the rain for a couple hours. They had a coin drop game that Todd & the kids participated in. Between the 3 of them they earned $7.50. 

Then we went home and relaxed before setting off a few fireworks. After we set off our fireworks we drove to the base and watched their show.