Sunday, April 19, 2009

24 hours

We met with A's neurologist last week. Nothing really good or bad came out of the check up. She says the eeg is still showing seizures and there still seems to be more of a focus on the left side. Our next step is to schedule a 24 hour video eeg......24 Hour video eeg...that spells FUN!

The doctor is hoping that this will maybe provide more solid data on where the focus is for the seizures. Then we can make more educated decisions as to maybe referring Abigail to a surgery specialist so they can run more in depth testing with newer imaging technologies. This does not mean we would do surgery but it would allow us to have the deeper testing done. Its any ones guess at this point as to what the heck is going on. Sometime I just feel like we are playing darts...and I suck at darts.

As far as the diet goes... Abigail is doing great. When we lowered the calories to 1170 a day she now eats with little to no issues. I guess you really can live on sausage and cream! All of Abigail's teachers regularly comment on how much more focused she is. Katy, her nanny, regularly comments about how happy and goofy Abigail is. Even though we see 1 to 2 seizures a day she is continuing to improve and develop at a normal rate, she is even catching up in some areas. Her words are clearer and there are more of them. She can swear in context now. I would take the blame for that last one but maybe her birth father was a sailor.....we will never know....actually one of Abigail's favorite songs is the "Pirate Ship" song........hmmmmm interesting.

Abigail has discovered "Flair"...not just a little "Flair" but a lot of "Flair", and she like to flaunt her "Flair". I have pictures that I need to download from the camera and will do so soon. She is often caught wearing 3-4 necklaces and as many bracelets on her wrists and ankles as possible.

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