AFO + EEG

Friday Maria got her ankle-foot orthothics (AFOs), and I hate to say this, but they're awfully cute. Blue plastic with butterflies, and pink straps. We got her some pink sandals and cute socks and she looks stylin'. I think she likes them, she's been playing with them and it seems like they might help her be more aware of where her feet/legs are. They want us to keep them on when she's in her stander, no problem, and work up to keeping them on all night--that will be interesting.

Today we started our day at the eye doc for our pre-operation appointment (actually we started much earlier with a walk. I put Maria to bed late and got her up early so she'd be nice and tired for her EEG). He's going to look at her optic nerve and her prescription to see if she needs glasses while she's under. He gave us a nice note to take on vacation that says, "Maria's bruised eyes are from eye surgery. Her family takes fantastic care of her!" Ha! Take that! I will say if anyone looks at us askance because of her post-op black eyes.

And then we scampered on to the EEG, where Maria performed admirably--she fell asleep about a minute after she was wired up and the lights went down. The neurologist left a message that said Maria's EEG is abnormal and she wants more detail on the "episode" Maria had a couple weeks ago, prompting the EEG. Andy reminded me that her past EEGs were also abnormal. (I remember them saying there was potential for seizures, but abnormal, hmph!)