I am on the Waiting List for my NillyNoggin EEG Cap. It will help me during my EEG testing! Please help me reach my goal.
I am so excited to receive my NillyNoggin!
And an added bonus,
if I go above and beyond my goal, we will help other Warriors battling epilepsy! How?
Once I reach my goal of $50, every $50 over that will support other Warriors wishing for a NillyNoggin!
I would really like to help others battling neurological conditions. I know what its like to fight every day and having something to help us get through stressful testing with a smile and help us feel like a rockstar is priceless.
Let’s work together and help sponsor NillyNoggin EEG Caps for more warriors battling epilepsy!
Help Me Feel like a Rockstar!
My medical condition requires me to get EEG tests that are very medically sterile looking and often scary.
Sometimes an EEG is worn for days, in public, and people often stare. The NillyNoggin covers up this scary medical look. It puts a positive, happy twist on the EEG procedure that some of us have to get a lot.
The NillyNoggin cap is comfortable and colorful! Lots of people will come up to talk with me ’cause it’s so cool! It will also give me confidence and comfort! This cap will help ease my anxiety and make life easier on everyone involved with my care.
And Just a Bit More About Me
At 3 days old, Rylee’s heart stopped beating 10 minutes after getting to the ER, and they did CPR for THREE HOURS, the longest 3 hours of our lives. They almost gave up on her multiple times. The ER doctor did. He told us she wasn’t going to make it. The neonatal specialist just couldn’t do it though, which I am forever grateful for. That woman will always stay with me in my heart.
Rylee is diagnosed as Spastic Quadriplegic, meaning all four extremities have tight muscle tones. She also has a hypotonic core/trunk, meaning she has no strength or control in her abdomen and mid-lower back. This is why she is still unable to sit up unassisted.
She first started seizing the day we almost lost her. But she stopped before she left NICU and we thought she wasn’t having them anymore. We were very wrong. In July 2021, she had her first seizure since NICU that included convulsion. We had already noticed some unusual behaviors, throwing herself forward, stopping anything including crying and staring blankly.
Rylee has since had multiple types of testing and imaging done. Even genetic testing. She does have a mutated gene “of unknown significance” that we will have further testing done in August for, including both parents being tested. This mutation could possibly be the reason for everything, the epilepsy, the event that happened at 3 days old, the CP, and developmental delay. Or it could not be significant and we will never know why this happened.
We do know that she has abnormal brain waves every 10 seconds, which is a lot, like A LOT. Her epilepsy is classified as intractable, which means medication resistant. She will not outgrow this, and she may never have a seizure free day. She currently has 10+ a day. She actually has multiple types.
She has only had 3 focal seizures that became tonic clonic, so convulsions are rare for her. Rylee takes 3 seizure medications. Her triggers are hunger, being overtired, and extreme fits of crying.
She won’t outgrow her seizures. There is a chance she never walks, and/or never talks. There will unfortunately come a time where she plateaus in her functioning, and that will then be how she remains for the rest of her life. But my warrior has already beaten so many of the odds her care teams have given her. I know she will continue to do so.
