Thursday, October 30, 2008

How it went...

day 1- got to the hospital just after 11 a.m. The neurologist doing rounds in the monitoring unit (yet another brilliant and kind Dr.) came around with a resident and just made sure we knew what was going to happen and what they expected us to gain from the stay. They weighed her took her vitals and everything was fine.

About noon they got the electrodes on her head and wrapped gauze around her head to keep her from messing with it (photo to be uploaded soon!). While I held her down for this, her dad ran back to the car to get our luggage, he can't take the crying. After she got all that mess on and they gave her lunch. They decided to just go low carb for her hospital stay and boy she sure ate everything up!!
After lunch the neurology resident came in and Naomi had already given up her "sunny disposition" and she gave anyone who walked in the room a very skeptical look. The resident was just doing the usual tests to see if she's weaker on one side etc... then he got out a pen light and shined it in her eyes and then tried to get her to follow it and held it off to the side to check her peripheral vision. The whole time she just stared him down! She was NOT taking her eyes off him!!! Very distrustful! Later she was sitting in the bed and Bill was holding a carrot on a fork off to the side of her and without turning her head or her eyes reached out with her fingers and plucked it off and shoved it in her mouth. Nothing wrong with her peripheral!!!
She ate diner about 5 and we held off on her jello cup until 7 so she'd have a snack before the fasting started. She slept all right, but would just wake up and open her eyes in the bed then go back to sleep. Then between 5-6 a.m. here came the woman from the lab to take blood. Then here came the nurse to prick her finger to check blood sugar.
I told Bill she's got to think "this is the worst hotel EVER!!!!"

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