Friday, July 18, 2008

Devin's Turn!

Yep - you guessed it. That's Devin at Baptist Hospital this morning! Tuesday afternoon he had some sort of seizure like activity. He remembers feeling "funny", getting up to get a drink of water, then he was on the floor. No one is real sure what happened because he was at teh neighbors house babysitting for a 2 year old and a 5 year old. He suffered from a subictal state (wooziness and confusion post seizure) for about 2-3 hours and was left with quite the knot on the side of his head - presumably where he hit his head on the counter going down.

So - we spent the morning today at Baptist Hospital where he underwent an EEG. His doctor said if the EEG was normal that we'd let it go as a one-time thing and monitor him. But - if it showed any abnormality she'd schedule him with Neurology. Well, he had difficulty with the deep breathing - they make you take deep fast breaths in/out for 3 minutes straight! He also struggled through the strobe lights. By the time it was over he was a bit dizzy, but otherwise OK. We weren't out of Baptist an hour and the phone rang . . . sure enough we're off to neurology.

His neurology appointment is currently scheduled for October 30th at Baptist. He's on the top of the cancellation list because he's a minor - so if an appointment opens sooner he'll take that one. Until then . . . we wait . . . and pray!


Through it all - he's still smiling. We had to buzz his head last night - his gorgeous hair is now gone! I have to admit I was somewhat sad! Today he even let me take a picture of him with all the wires attached to his head! Although I'm not sure he'll be too happy that I put it on the website for all to see!

2 comments:

Mandy said...

Sweet boy! I'm so very sorry. You and your family are so strong. Prayers headed your way!!

Carrie and Scott said...

prayers from Savannah! hope all is ok. what a scary experience!