Epilepsy

11/9/2011

 
Praise God!!!  Let me start by saying its been a little crazy the past couple of months.  I wanted to give a little history and update from Bradford's appt. with the neurologist.  Brad and I noticed him having what I thought was an absence seizure one afternoon.  We monitored him very closely after that and saw that he was having several a day.  I took him to the pediatrician and then got referred to the neurologist.  Of course our first appt. got cancelled. So a month later we got in. In the mean time he was having anywhere from 5-12 a day.  I know your probably thinking, my gosh but that didn't scare me as much as the behavioral changes we saw.  He had some severe anxiety and fear and it kills you as a mother when you can't take that away for them.  Let me just say that I am so thankful that it is just absence seizures( because I know it could be a lot worse). So Tuesday he had his eeg and the neurologist was able to see a few seizures. I gotta say my lil' man went through the whole test with a smile on his face. The Dr. did diagnose him as having childhood absence epilepsy.  We started him on his new medicine and so far so good.  He has gone 24 hrs now with no seizures and no crazy side effects from his meds! Thank you to everyone who has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. We really appreciate it.  

Pumpkin Carving

11/8/2011

 
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I really liked how our pumpkin turned out this year.  We started off making some apple cider in apple cups (  my first pinterest to try). You see Bradford decided to drink his through the cinnamon stick. After his 3rd cup we started carving our spider out on the pumpkin .  I recommend cutting it from the bottom. Now for Bradford's favorite part- the drill!!! He and Daddy drilled holes in it and then stuffed it with lights.  We actually put lights in each hole. Did I tell you Im OCD:)  It turned out great though.  The last pic doesn't look great with the lights hanging down but I wanted to take a quick pic before fixing it up.  I ended up putting leaves and more pumpkins around it but bummed I didn't get a pic of it.We will definately do this again next year. 

 
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Dah dah dah da!!!!! Here's your real Captain America.  We took Bradford to the park to get some pics in his halloween outfit last weekend.  Brad took a lot of good photos but was real eager to photoshop this one first. Can't wait to see the 12x18 poster size he ordered to put in his room!!