Carissa had two episodes after church (1x in Jan and 1x in Feb) where she complained of having a really bad headache which was followed by throwing up multiple times and then taking a nap for an hour. Her pediatrician suspected it was not a migraine but a type of seizure. To see if it was a seizure, we had to do this test. Well, she did show an abnormal test result from the flashing strobe light (which the Dr. said it's not really an indicator of a stroke) but all the other tests were normal. So he said she has migraines. Which isn't good either. He said she will probably grow out of them and then maybe have them again when she's a teenager.
We stayed at the 4 Points Sheraton hotel in Emmeryville the night before because I had to keep her up late and wake her up early so that she would be sleep deprived for the test. Scott spent the night with us and Maia stayed the night at Hailey's house. We went out to dinner the night before the test and Carissa wouldn't eat. She started crying because she missed Maia. Crazy because they fight all day long and here she has an opportunity to get all the attention and she cries for her sister. Carissa and I stayed up until 1:30 (which she loved) and we woke up at 5:40 am. Surprisingly she woke up without any fussing. The prayers worked!
At Childrens' Hospital in Oakland:
They attach a series of metal discs called electrodes to her head to measure her brain's electrical activity. They did this with her asleep and then awake.
After they attached all the wires, they hold them in place with gauze
After the sleep test, which took 15 min, they did a strobe light test. She had to keep her eyes on the light. This is the test that showed abnormal EEG results.
In the final test she had to blow on this pinwheel for three minutes. It's harder than you think!
