Brain Day

Prema was sporting this look today. This morning we left the house at 5:15 a.m. to take Prema to the hospital an MRI. She had to be sedated in order to keep her head still for 20 minutes. She was pretty freaked out knowing she was going to be put to sleep and remembering her oral surgery experience this last October. Once that was done we went to her 9:00 a.m. appointment at the neurologist for her EEG appointment. There they put the electrodes on her head for a 24 hour ambulitory EEG. Throughout the day we have been recording her activities and pressing a black button for recording whenever we see something we are concerned about. About a half hour before bedtime Prema showed us she had caught on to the procedure. She would stare into space or rapidly blink her eyes, wait a minute and then look at us to press the black button. Tomorrow morning we go back to the neurologist for them to remove the electrodes. On the 15th we return again for them to tell us the results. We are not sure when we will be given the results of the MRI. We are hoping that both tests will give us some insight into what is actually going on in her brain (i.e. brain damage, seizures, developmental delays not due to lack of schooling, etc). We are also doing chromosome and genetic testing to hopefully give us answers about her family and prenatal history.