EEG's and Ebola scare

Friday, Oct. 17
Today we returned to Childrens Hospital for another procedure.  Dr. Baldwin wanted Arouna to have an EEG to check his brain activity.  In Burkina, we had first noticed that Arouna was having some type of seizures.  He would get a blank look in his eyes, be still for 3-5 seconds and then jerk out of it quite suddenly.  We noticed it mostly in the early mornings(breakfast mostly, but sometimes other meals) and then going to sleep.  He continued to show signs of this in the states, so she wanted to check to see what they were.  
The EEG was scheduled for 12 noon and they wanted him to fall asleep during that time.  That is not his normal nap time and sometimes he can go all day without a nap and be fine, so I was worried that he would be wide awake.  But after they put about 25 little electrodes on his head and made him really mad, he actually fell asleep during the test as I rocked him.  The exam did show seizure activity and we are now scheduled to see a neurologist on Tuesday.  
A funny thing happened as we were signing in for the procedure.  There was a sign on the hospital walls that said if you had traveled out of the US within the last 30 days, to notify the registration desk.  So I did and they had me fill out a questionnaire and I handed it to the nurse in neurology.  When they finished his EEG, a male nurse or doctor came into the room and began questioning us about where we had been, when, do we have a certain set of symptoms.  He left and we waited and waited.  The infectious disease doctor at the hospital had the nurse take our temperatures and then the nurse had to go and talk to the doctor again.  They finally let us go, but I'm sure we gave them a big scare.  But we were
outside the 21 day period for being contagious or having symptoms, so they didn't get too upset about it.
After the procedure, we came back to Hot Springs Village and waited for my 2 sister-in-laws and neice to come for a visit from Springdale.  They wanted to meet Arouna, so they drove down Friday afternoon and stayed through Saturday afternoon.  We had a really good time with them.  On Saturday morning after breakfast, we went into Hot Springs, stopping along the way at an estate sale.  We then went to Garvan Gardens, which is a really nice area with different types of gardens and pathways all thru it.  Arouna rode in the stroller while we walked thru it and then we had lunch at the little cafe there.   We returned after lunch to my parents house and Bonnie, Debbie and Abby left for north Arkansas.