Today I began a three-day ambulatory EEG. That means my brainwaves are being monitored 24/7 for a few days, and I look like this:
Wow!
It’s really sort of fascinating…There are loads of thingamabobs attached to my scalp, a couple on my collar bones, and wires coming from all of them. The white thing I’m holding are all of the wires wrapped all pretty in white cloth.
I can be really vain, but boy, I realized this today on a different level. I realized that I had nothing of substance for lunch or dinner….AFTER I had all of this stuff attached to me. Therefore I went to Wal-Mart. I was really nervous and took a picture of myself on my phone, then sent to a friend to ask if I looked too much like a freak to enter a store. Her response was, “Silly, Biore’ strips go on your nose.” Yeah, she’s pretty funny! I don’t know what this says about Wal-Mart, but no one even gave me a second glance when I walked through for 20 minutes looking like this:
It was kind of liberating! I thought that I would stay in my house for three days as a hermit, to avoid being seen. It was great! People still ignored me or smiled at me as usual. No big deal, walking through the store with a bandaged scalp. I felt like a radiant beauty queen at my local Wal-Mart. And now we have dinner to boot.
This is part of the diagnostic jumping through hoops to figure out if I have MS or seizures, or some kind of weird migraines. I’m excited to find out the results!
Here I am with jazz hands
Wow! You are truly a beautiful person, you look cute and obvious have mad skills in the head wrap department!
You are still beautiful and you just can’t help it!!
Thanks 🙂
you pull off that look really well, I hope I can look so good when I have mine done next month
I didn’t know what to expect and was even a little anxious, but it wasn’t bad! The worst part was sleeping with wires.:)
Found out yesterday that I will need to do this – but for 7 days they are saying. Yeah – a little anxious is accurate! Were you glad you did it…happy with the results? Could you bathe? I was glad to find this posted. Thank you 🙂
Hi Beth! Yes, I was happy with the results. I could bathe, and just had to be careful with the equipment. I hope that you get good results with yours, too!
Thank you for posting this! I am having this done soon and I was curious to see what it would look like. The 30 minute EEG made my head itch like crazy… did it to you for this one?
You’re welcome~ No, it didn’t itch badly at all. I was concerned about that, too. It helped that I had it during a cooler time of year and was careful not to break a sweat as they instructed. Also washing my hair right before the EEG was helpful. I hope you get great results!