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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!  

Update on Emma

Just a quick update on Emma.  She has done well since Thursday, acting normal and no more seizures.  She has an appointment this afternoon at 3pm for an EEG.  Not sure yet if we will be able to meet with the neurologist today for the results or if we will have to wait.  We had to keep her awake last night, due to the test, she was only allowed 5 hours of sleep...very hard for a girl who gets close to 12 hours of sleep each night!  Also she hasn't had any candy, caffeine or any type of sugar since 3pm yesterday and can't until after her test today. She's a bit grumpy this morning, but that's to be expected! Obviously Jody and I are anxious about today, but more so of the unknown aspect.  Hopefully we'll know a cause to the seizures after the tests performed today and go from there.  

We know that she is in God's hands and He is the ultimate healer!!!  

Please pray for the doctor's wisdom, our anxiousness and for our other kiddos that will be at a friends house so that Jody and I are both able to go to the appointment.  Thank you already for all your prayers, comments, messages and encouraging words thus far, we'll keep everyone posted.

Emma

Just a quick note about what happened yesterday with Emma (our oldest, 7 years old). She had a seizure around 6pm which lasted about 3 minutes, we called paramedics (we thought this had never happened to her before). She was awake but could not speak, her right side was twitching/jerking affecting from her chest upward (chest, arm, neck, cheek, and eye). After about 30 minutes her arm and chest were still numb but regaining feeling. Paramedics checked her out and she was fine, so we refused ambulance transport. They sent us to a local childrens urgent care where they in turn sent us to a local childrens hospital. They did a CT scan at the hospital and everything was normal. Around 10pm they sent us home with diastat in case she has another seizure lasting longer this time, stronger or affecting additional parts of her body. We are to call the neurologist this morning to schedule an EEG so we can hopefully figure out the cause of the seizures. We have also discovered she had her first seizure at school last week that (she just told us about). Please continue to pray for her! Thank you for all your prayers, messages and texts of encouragement. We'll keep you updated.

This is for my Mom & Dad, to show them how my toe is doing...

This was 8 days after breaking my pinky toe on my left foot.  As you can see the swelling has gone down considerably and mainly bruising is left.  

Still can't get a "real" shoe on, but hopefully in the next few days!!!  Click here for my original toe post :)