Sleep Study!

As I sit here in the quiet of my classroom.....my assistances are helping out by giving me 30 minutes......I reflect back on last night.....I'll call it the "night from HELL!" Wish I had a copy of the pic they took of him, but I don't so use your imagination. First Mike and I are loudly discussing in the way to the hospital, then we hit a terrible storm on 85 where everyone thinks they can still drive 70 in rain that is blowing sideways, we pull into the hospital lot, Spencer starts with the "....um, um, um..." sound he makes when he knows we are entering the medical community, make our way to the 5th floor, he starts flopping like a wet dishrag, brush teeth, say prayers, sing song, read "Goodnight Moon", he's out! THEN......enter the sleep tech, who was very nice and patient with him I may add, but she started for get it, he's flipping, flopping, rubbing off wires, pulling off cords, working his toe to get the SAT monitor off, you name it. Dad and the tech gave up, I stayed out thinking it would be best. Then we let him get back into sleep again and here we go....3 of us now. The SAT monitor is attached, little toe working really hard to get it off....fighting us all the way, but we keep putting things on because at this point I know he'll wake up period if we touch him while he sleeps......2 hours of hooking up probes, wires, monitors, etc.....and finally everything is attached. For these 2 hours I'm laying on the bottom part of his body holding his legs, waist and left arm secure....Dad has the head and right side. OK....we're done, but now his is sticking his Gene Simmons tongue out trying to lick off the things attached to his face....let it never be said my son does not have problem solving skills, because he CAN figure his way out of things! The tech leaves so we can calm Spencer down and hopefully get him asleep. This takes much longer than it should, about 45 minutes. He still is fighting and by golly he's a strong little man, scares me when I think about him getting older, so finally he starts to fade out. In a last ditch effort, he raises his head in a swift jerk and POW!!! head butts Daddy....I heard the crackle in the nose. I sent Dad out so I could hopefully finish calming and putting to sleep. I did and for about 2 hours he slept, then started waking and pulling things off, removing everything. Around 3 the tech came in to where I was sleeping and asked for my help...he was in a tangled mess. As she was taking the leads off she asked if we could try and put them on again. I asked if she had any data when he was asleep and she said yes for about 2 hours. "Fine with me" I said! Dr. Gualt can live with that because I refuse to wrestle with him to attached all the hundreds of lines again....by that time it would have been 5 and there is no way he would have went to sleep. She agreed and said that was fine, so @ 3:00am we're headed up 85 home. HOME SWEET HOME!!!! We got in went to the potty, ate a cereal bar and drank some milk and then off to bed for the remaider of the night @ 4:30am. At 5am, my freakin' alarms go off.....so I'm up and off to work....no day off for me since I'm out of days and can never seem to catch up with the drs we see, but that's ok. Dad is home with Spencer, they are relaxing and enjoying the day and I'm here @ school fighting to keep my head above water, but.........Edward keeps me going!!!!!! Thank you fantasy world!!!