An Answer to Prayers

Lincoln got back up in the room at about 4:00 this afternoon. They put him under general anesthesia (laughing gas) to do all of the tests. They had told us prior to the lumbar puncture that they sometimes have to poke them in a few different spots in order to get fluid out of the spine. But thankfully they only had to poke Lincoln once to get what they needed. Since he has been back up in the room he has been quite groggy and therefore content to lay in bed & watch movies. They had told us that is what he would need to do after the lumbar puncture to make sure everything healed properly and that the side effects would be minimal. That is an answer to prayer that we have been able to keep our two year old confined to a bed for two days without much of a fight! He had quite the appetite when he got back up here because he was not allowed to eat or drink anything since he woke up this morning. He even ate some of Daddy's supper. They were in a few hours ago to tell us that the results from the MRI & MRS were "impeccable"-his brain looks great. So far, so good. The results from the lumbar puncture may be back tomorrow, but they may also take a few days. As they rule out serious things or other things that may be the cause for the seizures they keep on monitoring his medication and the frequency of the seizures. They are still averaging about 15 minutes apart. He will not be released until the frequency diminishes so we are still here for a couple more days unless they suddenly decrease. As far as we are aware they are done with testing so now we just play the waiting game for the medication to do what it is supposed to do.

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, prayers & well wishes for us. We appreciate all of it. We'll keep you posted.

For those of you who have expressed concern for the baby that is growing inside of me - the baby is still kicking me like crazy so he/she must be still doing great.