Neurologist

Stockton has spring break at SLCC. Yay! No early English class for him! Jorja had her neurology appointment today. I checked her out of biology and we drove about a half hour away. We waited there for a long time! When we were meeting with the doctor she was looking at Jorja's file and said, "It looks like you were concerned with the possibility of MS?" WHAT? NO! I just want a doctor to tell me that nothing is wrong with Jorja's brain! I guess the pediatrician was concerned Jorja might have MS. We talked to the doctor for awhile, I showed her the video of Jorja's seizure, and the picture of her face slightly drooping below right after the seizure. (The video was on our slack chat and I have no idea how to get it off.)

Anyway, the doctor said that the video was extremely helpful and there is no question that Jorja had a non-epileptic seizure that was caused by severe emotional trama. Wow. This makes sense. The seizure happened when we were in Australia. It was four days after Isaac broke up with her and the day after Grace told her that she was together with Isaac. To say Jorja was devastated is an extreme understatement. I have talked to Jorja a lot since October. We have talked about how there are other reasons we are counseled not to date until you are 16. It isn't just the physical temptations, but emotionally you are not capable of handling certain things. That was the case with Jorja. Her heart shattered. She actually felt more betrayed by Grace than she did Isaac. She has worked hard to put herself back together. She has become friends with Isaac again, but I don't think her friendship with Grace will ever be repaired. It's so dumb. I wonder if Grace thinks the two months she had with Isaac was worth losing Jorja's friendship. (Jorja wouldn't have had a claim on Isaac forever, I think Jorja wouldn't have been so hurt if Grace would have waited a couple of weeks before she decided to become a thing with Isaac. Jorja had spent hours talking to Grace about everything. Grace knew how much she liked Isaac and how hurt Jorja would be. Grace chose to hurt Jorja, and Jorja knew it.) The other dumb thing is after Grace and Isaac got together, most of Jorja's friends that were in that group stopped talking to Jorja. That made it so much harder to deal with the loss of Isaac. This is why Evan is my favorite. Evan and Hailey. They made sure Jorja knew she was important. They scooped up her broken pieces and helped her put herself back together. They didn't expect anything from her either. They were just there. Thank heavens for them!

Enough of the sad talk. Jorja and I had fun for the rest of the day. We went out to lunch and went swimsuit shopping. We didn't get back to school until five minutes before it ended. Jorja ran in to talk to her math teacher and figure out when she can retake the math test. Even if we had skipped lunch and shopping she would have missed that test. It was a fun day today and I'm glad that Jorja doesn't have a bigger problem. Like brain cancer. I feel relieved.