{"id":152,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-11-19T07:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T07:45:42","slug":"is-this-what-the-surgery-will-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Video EEG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Rachel’s brain waves look like when she is saying “REALLY DAD?!? A picture NOW?!?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first of the final, let’s-be-absolutely-sure tests was a “Video EEG”. This means that Rachel checks into the hospital, gets wired up with electrodes, gets a video pointed at her 24\/7 (except for bathroom trips), and waits to have seizures.<\/p>\n

One tricky part: they want a parent there at all times to push a button to time-stamp her seizures. Next tricky part: not all rooms are private rooms; some of them have noisy unhappy children on the other side of a curtain. Third tricky part: the parent’s “bed” is a bench with a cushion and a sheet.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the seizures knock her out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luckily, Rachel is really good a forcing a seizure when she needs to. She would\u00a0lie down, get quiet and peaceful, and start to breathe slowly and deeply. She was able to do this twice, and turned the 3-night stay into a 1-night stay.<\/p>\n

Still, it did make us nervous about the expected post-surgical WEEK in the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first of the final, let’s-be-absolutely-sure tests was a “Video EEG”. This means that Rachel checks into the hospital, gets wired up with electrodes, gets a video pointed at her 24\/7 (except for bathroom trips), and waits to have seizures. One tricky part: they want a parent there at all times to push a button … Continue reading Video EEG<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}