Long Days...

Right now I'm sitting in the waiting room at Children's while they do a Lumbar puncture on Tucker. They did an EEG for a few hours to make sure the phenobarbytol (which they gave him three doses of before it took effect) was working. He finally stopped having seizures, and they did the ultrasound on his head to make sure the seizures weren't caused by something going on in his brain. The ultrasound looked good, so their next option was to do the Lumbar puncture to rule out meningitis, because it is possible that the seizures were caused by the infection itself and not because it turned into meningitis. So now we're waiting for them to finish the puncture, which could take two to three tries. They'll know the preliminary results within three hours, and they'll know the definite results within 24 hours. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to my son...I heard another family talking about their baby having to have one done and it scared me to death. We have a wonderful nurse and nurses and doctors, who are going to be doing this so we have a lot of faith in them. On a little happier note, when they took all of the electrodes off of his head after the EEG they let me wash his little head and he loved it!! His sats went up and he was moving his little leg, which is good, yesterday and earlier today he was so sick he didn't even feel like moving and wasn't even trying to. We're very lucky for at least that. We're keeping our fingers crossed and hoping and praying for the best. Thank you for all of your support and prayers, we're very lucky!!!