Its been another up and down day with the Big Cheese. Colby had a number of small seizures throughout the morning and afternoon. A total of 4 but they were somewhat different from the other minor seizures. These occurred on his right side instead of his left and started as twitching in the entire arm and moved down to the elbow, then down to the fingers. Kinda weird, they call it the Jacksonian March. Anyways, they were minor and Colby was alert the entire time of each episode. Due to these episodes he didn't get to leave the ICU yet. They did move us from the nice quiet secondary ICU back to the main ICU but were in a private room. He also is on a second anti-seizure med now to help curb these other episodes. It seems to have worked as he has been peacefully sleeping through the evening. We met one of the other attending Neurologists, who essentially told us its still a waiting game. They will be doing more metabolic testing and are still considering genetic testing which both would be HUGE coincidences if this all didn't go back to Colby's hypoxic event. Anyways were still looking to probably be here for about a week. The plan is to first get these seizures under control and get that all figured out and move forward from there.
Today at rounds it was pretty funny. Colby became a teaching tool for a group of Med students. Due to his transposition of the great arteries, the doctor conducting rounds began quizzing the group on different issues regarding Colby's TGA and how it could coincide with what happened to him. Like Jess said it was our own personal Grey's Anatomy moment. Some of the group were sweating and the Doc kept firing away, with no mercy. It was cool to watch and I felt bad for the group, they looked stressed. Now we've had a House moment and a Grey's Anatomy moment, now all we need is a... wait we had an ER moment, YES! the cycle! House, Grey's and ER all in a week. Now if I have a Doogie Howser moment, that's it, I'm done. Some 14yr old better not come into the room tomorrow, or I quit, but I am typing on my computer at 12:30 at night, just like Doogie, did at the end of each episode, so technically...nah...
Blog to ya later.
Scott
1 comments:
I may not post much but I am your groupie viewer! I am checking my email and this blog many times a day! Thanks for taking the time to keep us informed with updates! You both could get a job in journalism!!
They say that you can tell what a person is 'made of' in the hard times, you all...Colby and Cooper too...know now that you can pretty much do anything! With that being said, and proved, I pray that you get answers and you can bring Colby home soon.
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