The second scan

I hadn't been able to have more than a few hours' sleep for the first three weeks (but I did manage about six one on occasion – hey 1 in 21 isn't bad, is it?). My sleep is generally very slowly improving, but I keep waking up and can’t get back to sleep now, and I am exhausted. It doesn’t help that one of the side effects of the carbamazepine (for my epilepsy) is drowsiness. I am also getting frequent headaches which are really annoying, and there are some periods of time, especially in school and when I’m sitting on my own at home, where I feel like lying down on my bed and screaming into my pillow about how unfair, frustrating and upsetting I think it all is. After the second scan on January 9th 2007, an appointment was made for the 8th of March ('a good sign' as Dad put it), but then delayed another week to the 15th March.