Today is hearing and eyesight tests at Bristol Childrens Hospital. This will assess obviously her senses but also her brain stem function. Jim Jam was as usual a star and the Technicians blitzed through the tests in record time. She had a nest of electrodes glued (I kid you not) to her head and then she was subjected to various speeds of strobe lights followed by strobes and sounds through headphones. The headphones, I think, were huge bakelite items circa 1930 so it was a bit like strapping dustbins to her head. So I sat there holding Imogen on my knee with one hand, jamming a bottle in her mouth with the other, her head covered in electrodes wired into a machine, with a tech holding the headphones on her, another one occasionally waving a dinner plate sized strobe in her face. All this taking place in a room the size of a broom cupboard, if there had been a fire we'd have ended up in one huge cats cradle in the dash to get out.
Anyway as I say Jim Jam was a star, promptly falling asleep as soon as they blasted her with the headphones. We were out of there in no time and had a nice relaxed drive home. Her head now looks like a patchwork quilt where the glue removed her cradle cap (with the aid of Acetone!), but at least it's done. Now for the next test. MRI due next week.
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