More Emma...

Here's Emma at the ER, right before they took her back for the CAT scan last Thursday. The results ended up being normal, so we had to schedule an EEG with a neurologist.  We got in for the EEG Monday afternoon, but unfortunately her appointment with the neurologist for the results isn't until this coming Friday morning.  For the EEG they stuck 24 electrodes to her head with a type of paste then hooked up all the wires to a machine to measure her brain waves.  She was asked to open her eyes, close them, breathe deeply for a set amount of time, breath through her mouth only, fall asleep, and at the end they asked her to close her eyes and turned on a strobe-ish light right above her head at different intervals.  The actual test took about 30 minutes, plus time to hook up everything and un-hook everything, so a total of about an hour.  I took this picture right after the light test, I guess that's why she was closing here eyes, still too bright?!

Prayer Requests:
1. She won't have any more seizures! Especially at school, she seems really embarrassed and nervous about the chance that she may have another at school.  Today was her first day back since the second seizure.
2. Doctors wisdom so we can hopefully figure out what caused these seizures in the first place.
3. Peace of mind for myself (and Jody), yesterday was a very stressful day for me, I don't handle stress all that well, usually get grumpy and snappy.

I was reminded yesterday as we were sitting in the waiting room for Emma's EEG how blessed and thankful we should be.  There was another little girl that was waiting for her appointment that was 7 and had a neurological disorder that prevented her from walking and talking and was in a wheel chair of sorts.  Emma was shocked to find out that she was the same age as this little girl.  We have been very blessed to have 4 children, that they are happy and healthy, may I never forget that or take advantage of what God has given us!