The EEG!
The first week of May I started noticing that Jonah was having what I recognized as seizures. There are all kids of seizures, the type I've noticed Jonah having people call either absence seizures or staring spells. In the middle of regular everyday activities Jonah's eyes will suddenly fix on something across the room. If I say his name or tap the bridge of his nose he is totally non-responsive. After 2-5 seconds he blinks and looks around and all is well again. I'm very grateful for the experience I've had as a teacher with identifying these and other types of seizures. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have identified what I was seeing as seizures. We told the pediatrician about it and she arranged for us to have an EEG today. Our instructions were to put Jonah to bed two hours later than normal on Sunday night and wake him up two hours early this morning and keep him awake until his appointment at 9:30. They needed him to fall asleep through the test to lo...