Friday, June 19, 2015

shea - june19th

Quick update...

If it wasn't for the awful vertigo I would say we are within a day or two of discharge, when we could start our life of rehabing and adjusting to the new normal with the lost function of his legs, and the patiently waiting to see what would return...

Unfortunately the vertigo is still severe, and constant if ever above 45 degrees of sitting.  The MRI's did not show any obvious explanations so everyone pushed to still consider it an inner ear vertigo, and we even got permission to do the Epley manuever from ortho.... However ENT returned today also and spent a very long time with him... and strongly felt it was not at all consistant with peripheral inner ear vertigo.

So it may have a central cause and tomorrow we have to delve into that.  I tracked down the picu docs and they agree to my request to get a new neurosurgical md consult tomorrow to discuss csf leak or shunt drainage that is too rapid,

His pain is slowly improving, so that's a plus... only had to use one prn morphine in the last 24+ hours, the rest controlled by oral pain med.

Surgical drain came out today.

Legs are the same as i reported yesterday...

Was planning to sign off and finally go to bed when just writing this sentence after lots of googling and convincing... however the nurse just came in and let me know that picu is no officially full, and shea is most stable, so if any other kids come in tonight we will be bumped off the unit to floor status...so i better start doing a little pre packing ...  Pray it doesn't happen please... not in the middle of the night at least...

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