We successfully survived the EEG. Thank you so much for all of your support via comments and e-mails. It means a lot to have virtual strangers (although you don't feel like strangers) offer such kind and comforting words.
We started of with a bang when we drove to the wrong location for the procedure (true WI Mommy style!). We were about 100 blocks off and raced to make it to the appointment without being too late. Then we were informed that Little J was going to have to sleep during the appointment.
Ha-ha, yeah, right.
This is the child that does NOT sleep on demand, especially not somewhere other than his bed, especially NOT when he is overtired, and especially NOT with a million little wires hooked up to his head.
We however lucked out with the best technician EVER who managed to lull our little guy into a deep and apparently productive sleep. She got whatever readings she needed from him and we were allowed to wake him up after about twenty minutes or so. They also had plenty of readings from the half hour of him trying to fall asleep while we were with him and several minutes of a bright strobe light being flashed in front of his face.
All in all, not as traumatic an experience as I had thought it was going to be, but not one that I am in any hurry to repeat. My SIL had some extra soon to expire Disney Dollars from her credit card and had sent them over last week, so I hit the Disney store Sunday afternoon for some retail therapy and had some great toys to distract Little J during the gluing-on-of-the-electrodes portion of the morning. He was quite the little trooper and seemed to recover rather quickly from the whole event. I will feel better once I hear from the doctor and know for sure what the tests actually reveal.
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