A Whole Lot of Stuff

We have been through a lot over the past almost 2 weeks. Everett has been through a lot. For the past 2 months Everett has been having "episodes" where he becomes very stiff, red in the face, and had difficulty responding. It had gotten worse, especially last week. The pediatrician wasn't sure what to make of it. A week ago Everett had about 6-7 episodes in one day and that night we decided to take him to the emergency room. The ER doc agreed it looked like a seizure and we saw the neurologist the next day. Ev had an EEG and no seizure activity was detected during those 30 minutes. That Saturday morning while I was at work I got a call from Eric that Ev had hurt himself and had a laceration above his eye. We aren't sure how since Eric discovered it when he went to get him out of bed that morning. Eric and Ev were in the ER all day. Ev needed sutures and kept seizing during the procedure. The on call neurologist put him on seizure meds that night. Since he has been on the medication his seizures have decreased in frequency and intensity. Unfortunately the med causes some yucky side effects including irritability. We put him on a vitamin supplement to curtail some of the symptoms and hopefully in a few weeks the side effects will subside. Everett had a MRI last Thursday with normal results-praise the Lord! It has been a rough road, a road we are still on, but hopefully we are on the upswing now. Everett still is having some short little seizures, but we are uping the dosage each week for the next couple of weeks. We are grateful for the Lord's provision of peace and strength-especially for Everett. I know it could be a lot worse, but I am praying it gets better soon. 

Hampton serving as Everett's personal foot stool

She loves Everett 

Have I mentioned I love dressing this doll baby up!?

Oh blue eyes- you melt my heart daily

 

And brown eyes- you know how to melt me as well

 

Sister is looking like she is going to hang on to those blue eyes as well

And she is holding on to a rattle too

Hampton playing on his own while Everett was at preschool

Everett's laceration. It is healing nicely.

Playing outside

 

 

 

The boys

 

Exploring in our backyard woods.

Things are starting to get back to normal-we aren't there yet. But we are getting there.