ERs, CTs & EEGs Oh My!

Yesterday was one of those days that went a completely different direction than expected.  At 6:30 last night I wearing a super heavy smock & holding Elle’s hand while she was getting a CT scan thinking to myself, “Hmm, I didn’t think I’d be doing this today.  Hmm, I should be more freaked out right now.”

Yesterday Elle fell off the swing at Ms Laurie’s house.  She ended up blacking out for a few seconds, had some tremors in her arms & legs & wet her pants.  By the time I got to Laurie’s, Elle was acting completely fine but when she wanted to sleep in the car as we were leaving I thought that I should at least call her doctor.  (Btw, I LOVE our pediatrician.  If you ever need a good one, shoot me a message.)  The doctor wanted us to keep her awake & take her to the ER just to be safe.

We got in pretty quickly!  I was prepared for swine flu central, but it wasn’t too bad.  Anyway long story short, she had a CT scan just to be safe.  She was such a trooper with the scan.  She acted a bit nervous but not a tear or panic moment.  Plus I was SHOCKED at how still she held her little head.  It was wonderful that I got to hold her hand throught the whole thing.  It may  have been a different story if I handn’t.

Everything on the scan came back normal.  The think that she had a “breath holding spell”.  Basically young kids get so scared or cry so hard that they black out momentarily.  Many times they will have some shaking while they are out.  The one thing that threw the doc for a loop was that she had wet her pants (which is a very seizure like thing).

After talking to the pediatrician today, we have scheduled an appointment with a neurologist for next week.  She’s concerned with it really being a breath holding spell because she has never done anything like this before.  Typically a child has a history of doing this & Elle hasn’t ever.  They’ll do an EEG.  I’m sure that will be interesting.  They want to do an awake EEG & an asleep EEG.  The night before I have to put her to bed 2 hours after normal bedtime & then wake her up 2 hours earlier than normal.  Great, nothing like a 4:30 wake up call!  She’ll be tired alright, she’ll also be in a lovely mood.

So we thought we had answers, but we are still playing a bit of a waiting game.  Thankfully Elle is acting completely normal so that really puts my mind at ease.  I’ll keep you all updated, but say a pray for her (& her mom).

This is a completely unrelated pic, but I thought the pitiful face was fitting!