Finally some sign of relief. Yesterday the seizures started diminishing, being there only a part of the time. Towards the evening I did not see any at all. This morning there have been no seizures that I could detect. But I am not allowing myself to become optimistic yet. We’ve been down that path. Ella was in amazingly good spirits yesterday and great fun to be with. It was a bit surreal and uncomfortable, because our neighbor in the hospital room is a Pakistani girl maybe 12 years old, she had had some sort of brain surgery, her recovery isn’t going smoothly. She is in excruciating pain (in her head) and they don’t know what to do about it. So at the same time we are cooing and playing with Ducky, she is screaming in pain, she can’t take it anymore. In some cases Ella responded to that with a big smile. I told her to cut it out. Today we are scheduled to have an EEG done and see if the external change we are seeing with the seizures is reflected in the electrical activity in the brain.
\nIf all looks good. We might be going home today. It might sound weird but in some ways I like being in the hospital with Ella. For one, my priorities are set. I have one goal when I am there. Take care of her. Besides I get to spend some condensed time with her. Something I usually don’t get. And then there is the cafeteria food\u2026
\nThe Neurosurgeon Dr. Black dropped by last night. We have an appointment with him on Monday. He said any time we can buy by controlling the seizures and pushing surgery away a bit is a benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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