Hospital Tests that Don ' t Hurt

Polysomnogram is the name of the game. One hospital test that everyone assures me truly does NOT have pain involved. All you have to do is hook up some wires and sleep all night. Where ' s the pain, eh? < br / > < br / > So my little one went in for this test over the weekend. My son is special. In a lot of ways, and I won ' t count them right now. For this story, the special ingredient that makes the story is his sensory hyperacuity. In other words, he has nerves where most people don ' t have nerves and he feels things that most people wouldn ' t notice in a very long time. We had a lot of problems with dental work early on. The dentist he saw kept saying, " That does NOT hurt! You stop saying it does! " Sure. Try telling a three year old they are not in pain. It was a lot of years after that before we could find a dentist that could work with the resulting fear. My son is now 12 and thanks to the UM Pediatric Dentistry department now actually looks forward to seeing the dentist. < br / > < br / > For the sleep test, there were four steps in attaching the wires. (1) marking the location with a wax pencil; (2) < br / > swabbing the area with alcohol; (3) swabbing the area with a pumice-laced lotion; (4) attaching the actual electrode or head of the wire or whatever it is called. First problem was the wax pencil. We tried things on me to show they didn ' t hurt. Didn ' t hurt me, but it did hurt my son. But the lotion with the abrasive in it, oh, my. To my son it felt as if...
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