William Wallis
Thank you for all of your prayers for Eli today. He did awesome!!! Barb and I both remarked as we walked out of the doctor's office today that we could literally feel the prayers and grace on all 3 of us today.
Going through and EEG is so stressful, one of those situations that you don't even realize how difficult it was until it is over. It is like when you don't realize that you are holding your breath until you finally allow yourself to breathe and realize you really needed to. Walking out of the office today I felt like I finally took a deep breath, a much needed breath.
EEG's are very intense. We cover them in prayer so the intensity seems to start days before the actual procedure. There is so much required of Eli but yet he is not able to understand any of it, there is no way to reason with him- so it is left up to us to comfort him and provide all he needs to get him to do all the different things required of him for the test.
During an EEG the electrical activity on the brain is measured. It looks like a bunch of lines on a graph moving up and down. If any of the lines spike, that is not good. We are hoping for a pretty balanced looking graph. We meet with Dr. Kojic next Wednesday (the 18th) at 10:30 to go over the results of this EEG.
During the EEG today they needed to test Eli while he was doing various different activities. It was important to see how his brain reacted under different circumstances. It was my part to get Eli to do the different things they needed him to do. He needed to laugh, he needed to watch TV, he needed to cry- which wasn't a difficult one, he needed to watch a blinking light at various speeds and intensities, he needed to be awake and alert, he needed to be drowsy but not sleeping, and finally, the most challenging, is that he needed to fall asleep.
But all praise to God- Eli did everything he needed to do today. He had so much grace. It was easy to get him to laugh. He was very interested in his movie. He was intrigued by the light and when it was time to fall asleep he snuggled with my arm, his blanket and Grover and drifted off peacefully into a slumber.
He did a great job. I was so proud of him today. He is such a strong little man. I was looking at him sleeping today with tons of wires coming out of his head, all wrapped up in gauze, I was thinking about what it will be like to share with him in 10-20 years about these days we are experiencing now- days he won't remember but that will no doubt shape who he is forever. I look forward to sharing with him about his great strength and bravery through all of these tests and taking medicine and going to therapy and visiting doctors more often than any child should have to. He is so strong- I admire his strength and bravery. I am so proud and blessed to be his momma.
Thank you again for your prayers. We know that the grace we experienced today came from God- He is all sufficient!!!
posted by Kellie # 11:11 PM
