Thursday, January 24, 2008

Thank you so much everyone!!

Here's Eva on Tuesday before she went in to get the IV tube out. She thought it was soooo cool because she looked like she had a broken arm. She wanted to show all of her friends.



She had to sleep on that thing all night, it has a plastic board around back to keep your arm straight, she did really well with it. The board came out a few times and when I put it back in she thought she was an expert at it and thought then when we went to the doctor that she could take out the board and probably the tube too. It told her to leave it to the professionals...they need to feel special. She was ok with that.
Here's where they stabbed her foot too. The ER nurses had a really hard time finding a vein, they really poked her. :(

And her one request? Chocolate milk and a lot of it.



I really appreciate everything everyone has said and your prayers are truly felt at this time!


Eva had her EEG yesterday. Like I mentioned before they had me keep her up two hours past her bedtime...which was a piece of cake. Eva is a night owl just like me and we borrowed some movies from one of our neighbors and stayed up a little past 11:30pm watching them...I had to convince Eva to go to sleep...she has no problem staying up. I decided that we should camp out in our living room that night so we didn't disturb Elle at 4am! Yikes.


So Jeremy set the alarm and came down and woke us up. Once Eva was up she was fine. All I could think of to keep her occupied till 9:30am was game after game. So we played balloon volleyball for a while. Then we did jigsaw puzzles...by 4:40am I was like...what in the heck am I going to do till 9:30am!! She played play dough, we played memory...then by 6:30am I finally resorted to TV, even though I knew it would probably make both of us sleepy. Not that I wasn't already completely sleep deprived...because I totally was/am. Anyway, I started falling asleep soon after the TV came on and Eva did well till about 7am and she started to nod off. So I tried talking to her to keep her up but all she kept saying was, "I just need to lay down." I decided to play balloon volleyball again, she was really tired but by 8am she got a second wind and the only hard part after that was the car ride. I was like slamming on the brakes to whip her back and forth...which she thought was pretty funny. I was blasting Queen as loud as I could...along with talking really loudly, singing annoying songs and keeping it cold in the back seat. She was not happy with me, lets just leave it at that.



Once we got there we learned a little more about what she would be doing. The EEG is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of your brain by using sensors attached to your head and connected by wires to a computer. They needed her sleep deprived so that her brain was under stress, and all the tests they did while she was hooked up were to stress he brain out to see it's reaction. She had to look at a strobe light(which she did not like at all, she mostly squinted and rubbed her eyes), then she was supposed to blow on a little windmill so she would kind of hyperventilate but she refused she was getting really upset and whining and pushing it away and the more I asked her to just try once the more mad she got, lucky for me it was the only time in my life, ever, that they were happy with her reaction because it was making her mad, it was kind of part of the test to make her irritated. So if you ever want to feel good about your kids throwing a fit in public, just remember that if they were hooked up to an EEG machine the doctors and technicians would love it...you can tell that to any gawkers, "The doctors love it when she/he throws fits like this..it's so good for her/his brain." That should get the gawkers to walk away...or call DHS, but by that time you should be done shopping.


Anyway, after that I had to get her to relax completely and then fall asleep...which she did, then I had to make her mad again by waking her up just enough to open her eyes and then have her fall back asleep again...which was really easy because Eva never wakes up the first time...I just tickled her which made her really mad and then she just fell back asleep...again the technicians loved it, the said,"Perfect" when she scowled at me with anger for waking her. It really makes you feel good when you get complemented on how upset your child is getting, it's a little bit of a parental ego boost.


The worst was actually all the gooey junk they put on the little tabs to stick to your head. So gross looking. Eva looked like she had a colony of lice and maggots that took up residence in her hair, the looks we got were priceless. Plus the marked up her head with this red wax pencil and they taped one tab right under her eyes, which really irritated her and they had to have the sticky tabs on her chest too...taking them off was kind of like a band aide and that did not go over well at all...a lot of crying.

This is her crazy face to go along with her crazy hair.So gross looking right? Some old people gave us some weird looks as we were leaving the hospital...I actually kind of enjoyed it.


Anyway, she did really well and then I took her to Old McDonalds(that's what she calls it) she ate a "hefty" kids happy meal(that's the one that has more than 4 chicken nuggets) and came home and crashed for about 3 hours. We wont know the results till next Tuesday, around there. She's doing so well though, completely herself.


I'm starting to be a little less paranoid about leaving her alone. I don't want her to pick up on me watching her like a hawk..I want her to feel normal and like everything is normal.

Last night was the first night in a couple days that she slept in her bed. She didn't wake up till 9:40am! Woo hoo! I'll put some pics up of the past few days.

Some more pics of the gooey hair globs. It actually wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to get out.



You can see the red spot under her eye were the taped wire was...that's the one that really got her crying, just anticipating taking it off she started crying. Poor baby.
This is Eva looking devastated by her bruised up arm. It was really red and sensitive because they really taped it up since she was trying to pull everything out once she woke up.




Ewww, a close up. She's such a trooper.





Thank you again everyone for all your prayers and we'll keep you updated as soon as we know anything.
Here's one more pic of Elle, she's been really sick the past week or so. The day Eva had her seizure we actually went into their pediatricians office to get Elle checked out. So here's Elle looking sick and she's also sporting a super cute ponytail that Eva and I gave her.

6 comments:

Zach 'n' Jack said...

oh, Elle does look really miserable! Love the mini ponytail. Glad Eva is doing better, I hope everything keeps going well....

Cari said...

Eva is a trooper she takes after her mama... and i guess her dad too. just kidding. i lvoe you guys

ollie said...

You are the funniest/coolest mom ever! I wish Kelly and Eva could be friends. I can only imagine the pair....

We said a prayer for Eva tonight during family prayer so hopefully it'll help (even though it's a little late) Glad things are going well already

Melanie said...

Wow- what a little trooper! She really did get poked- ouch! But I love the "maggot" pictures- so gross! We are thinking of you guys and praying for you!

The GLASMANNagerie said...

Christa

If you ever want to talk, just call. I know EXACTLY what you are going thru. Jess and I read your blog and just laughed because we remember all to well what it is like. Hang in there. Call me.
PEggy

Three Love kids said...

i have been feeling real ick lately so i have not been on to check your page to get updates. i love all the new pics and Eva is so brave and i am so glad she did so well, for you and for her.