Hospital Update

Well we got out of the hospital yesterday. Things went pretty well. Linc did awesome. He is such a good, sweet, patient little boy. He handled being cooped up better than his parents did.

The doctors didn't learn much from the EEG however, so that is a dissapointment. The seizures are still originating in the left hemishpere, but cannot be pinpointed to a certain lobe, let alone a certain tuber within a lobe. We had a CT scan to try to see if there were any calcium deposits, which can often indicate seizure activity in that region. I haven't heard back about this, but I doubt it would really make a difference in our course of action. Dr. T said that we are not good candidates for epilepsy surgery at this point in time, and that we are going to continue with the medication route. He did say that Linc is not having Infantile Spasms any longer, so this is a very good thing. He seems to think that the Topamax most likely was responsible for this, and that possibly increasing the dosage again, that the focal seizures may come under control as well. We can hope. Even if this is not the case, there are still some more options for different drugs. And maybe down the road, as Linc's brain grows and develops, we will be able to "see" things a bit more clearly on the EEG.

He are some pics of our brave little trooper:

And in other news. Check out Linc's new t-shirt...and the new ticker in the side bar. That is right. We are expecting again. Although there is a ton of time between now and January, and we know that just about anything and everything can go wrong between now and then, we decided that there was really no good reason to not go ahead and share the good news now. If, god forbid, something bad were to happen, that event would not be kept a secret, and you all would find out about it anyway. So we would rather share our happiness now, and hope, pray, and plan for the positive outcome here!

Lincoln approves. He is giving us the thumbs-up!