Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Kiersten's appointment today

Ok-so we just got back from her appointment. The doctor went over basically the same as before with me but added a little new info. Basically she now has an 80% chance of this happening again and because the first one happened before she was 2 years old (technically the first two since the second one happened just two days before her birthday) the likelihood of it happening again is good. He went through the timeline with me of the last episodes and said that she needs higher doses of the Motrin and Tylenol and it needs to be given more often-every three hours for each instead of the normal 4 hours for Tylenol and 6 for Motrin. Obviously we can't do this for days at a time but for 24 hours she should be good. He also wants us to get some Tylenol suppositories because she tends to throwup Tylenol. We no longer are to wait for 5 minutes of seizures before giving the diastat. He only wants us to wait for 1-2minutes at the most. He also told us that if she continues to have seizures and keeps having them close together like these last two he may have to put her on some sort of antiseizure medication. There are a lot of sideeffects that go along with them-like making kids very angry so we are trying to hold off and hope that she no longer has them. Thanks for all of the prayers and please keep praying that she doesn't have any more period. It is hard to watch her go through these and then have her in the hospital for days at a time not being able to move or function.

So other than that there really is nothing new here. Things have been mainly revolving around Kiersten and worrying about her. The other kids are all getting colds that I hope go away quickly but other than that nothing. My sister is moving back to Michigan today so I hope she finds what she is looking for there! Well, I guess I will update more later! Thanks for the prayers everyone!
Stacy

1 comment:

Jody said...

Stac:
How is Kiersten? Your sister?