We are being released from the hospital!!!

We had a great night last night. Between 9:30 last night & 6:30 this morning Lincoln only had one seizure-YEAH! From 6:30 -9:30 they were about every 15 minutes. Since 9:30 they have been one per hour. The fact that he had such a great night they said was a great sign. They increased one of his medications today (they said they can still increase both medications quite a bit, but they want to increase them slowly). We are waiting for all of the discharge papers and then we will be able to leave the hospital-YEAH! We are going to be staying with some friends of ours tonight here in Rochester. Tomorrow morning he has to have one more blood draw & they want to take a urine sample and then we will be able to go home-BIG YEAH! All of the tests that have come back so far have been good. A couple of the things that they were testing with the lumbar puncture take two weeks to get results from. Hopefully those tests all come back as good as the rest of the tests have. We have to come back here in three weeks for a consult with one of the doctors. By then they will be able to review all of the tests with us. Other than that we should not have to come back & visit here. We will do all follow up with Lincoln's Neurologist in Fargo. They are going to call her today to review everything with her and we have an appointment with her next Tuesday.

His back is a little bit sore today from the lumbar puncture yesterday, but they gave him Motrin so he seems to be doing a little bit better now.

It may take a while for the medication to get to the right dosage to get to the point where he isn't having any seizures at all. But we feel like we are on the right track and at least we know that they have ruled out anything serious. The doctors said that there are times that they are not able to find out what exactly causes the seizures. That part kind of stinks, but as long as there isn't something seriously wrong with him we are okay with not knowing the exact cause for the seizures. The doctors & nurses here have been great at answering all of our questions-we feel like we received top notch care while we were here.

Now we go home & hope that we can see our little boy return to his crazy self sooner than later. We'll keep you posted on how he is doing. Once again we want to thank everyone for all of your prayers, support, encouragement & well wishes. All of it has helped get us through this trying time.