Medical updates

Lily has croup. She finally woke up this morning with no fever which means we are going in the right direction (she was 103.8 on wednesday afternoon), but she still has an awful cough and no voice. She does NOT like her medicine. But I tell her she has to take it, and after a couple futile attempts to refuse, she takes it. It’s funny how we all find ourselves whispering to her, since she has no voice.

Mia has not started with croup yet, but I wish she would. We know she’s going to get it and I’d rather it be now and can be over by Sunday than start Sunday and me have to stay home from work AGAIN on Monday. (thank god it's my slow time at work)

Mia had her appointment with the neurologist yesterday. She is going to have an EEG, if that comes back irregular then she’ll have an MRI. Regardless of what the tests say, they do not treat first time seizures in children. The chances of them having a 2nd one are 40% and if she does have a 2nd one, that does not put her at any higher risks or in any more danger than the first one did. There are risks involved with the medications though, so they do not treat with meds until after the 2nd seizure. The DR said she DID have a seizure. There is no question about that. What we don’t know is did she fall, hit her head and have a seizure from that or did she have a seizure and that made her fall.

Now we just wait. And pray. I'm very hopefull that we will just get all this nasty medical stuff out of the way this year and never have a worry again..