9/10/2011 Talk about an eventful day today. This morning around 7:00 am we receive a call from Dr. Chuck (one of the surgical fellows), he tells me that he has been having seizures through the night. They are not obvious, but they aren't always that obvious in children. He tells me that it may be a result of them changing out the circuit yesterday (which went great by the way). They have already given him a brain ultrasound to check for bleeding and there wasnt any evident, and they would call the neurologist up as soon as they could. Being as i was leaving at 8:00 to go to huntsville to see rowans soccer game, we went up to the hospital to see if they would let us in a few minutes early. Sure enough, they did and what we saw was him very drugged up, on phenobarbitol and ativan to keep him from seizing. We sat there until we saw memphis start shaking. It was just a subtle movement in his right arm that was very rhythmic.

I left from there and came to watch the game, which was entertaining. Michelle let me know that the neurologist had came in and stated that he thought it was something called myoclonus, a nerve irritability. After the EEG, it showed up to be a seizure, but it inst in the cortical area of his brain (whatever that means) that they were concerned about. At this point they have taken him off of the extra ativan, but left him on the phenobarbital.

On a better note, he only gained around 400 grams, which is better than what we thought. The surgeon said that his xrays and ultrasounds look much better

I will keep posting as i know.