Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Busy morning...

Levi has had a busy morning so far today. Couple of different doctors in to see him early this morning. He got his med around 8am. Someone came in and pulled out his stitches this morning (he was not too happy about that). They are going to pull his feeding tube up a little bit. It currently is in the upper intestines, and they are going to pull it up so the contents of the tube empty into his little stomach. He will also start speech therapy today. I get a chuckle out of a 6 week old baby in speech therapy, what are they going to teach him? How to say goo goo ga ga? Seriously though, they will work with him on a bottle. This means that two different people will work with him on bottle feeding. We still need an audiogram done before discharge and another EEG scheduled.
While I was writing this, the doctors just came in for rounds. The doctor was very upfront with us this morning about the "real" risks involved with Levi. The first was that he may have an issue with epilepsy. Another issue he may have to contend with is Cerebral Palsy. He feels that the he is concerned with Levi developing an issue with his legs, mainly his right one. After he looked at his MRI the doctor stated that his temporal lobes looked pretty good. He did take a minor hit to them, but nothing severe and he didn't seem to concerned about it. Levi does seem to have some damage to his frontal  lobes which control motor functions. The doctor does see some difference from his left side to his right, but its mainly in his right leg, which he has pulled up to his body tightly.
We know that the doctors are preparing us for the "worse" case scenario. We are still standing in faith that Levi will be healed of all impairments. We are believing that once the PICC line is pulled out of his right leg, that it will loosen up and will be normal again. This is what we are praying for.

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