October 7, 2013 - Praise God!

October 7, 2013

One of the worst side effects I remember from IVIg is a terrible headache. Bella woke up with one today that persisted until about 3. Aside from the debilitating headache, Bella had a great day! When she woke up, she said the 2 objects were overlapping in her double vision. When she first started complaining of double vision a week ago, the objects were side by side. As she grew more fatigued throughout the days, the objects would grow farther apart. Having them overlapping was a great improvement and then early this afternoon, the double vision went away! Although Bella’s headache did return tonight, her double vision did not! Thanks to God and to all of you for the prayers! They are working!

Praise God! She can see!

The IVIg started at 3:40 today and lasted until about 7. Bella’s BP dropped again but stabilized after the first hour. She has one more treatment tomorrow. They are hoping to start it closer to noon so we can go home tomorrow night!
Bella had a PT session today with her inpatient therapist Kat – the same one she had back in May. Kat could not believe how far Bella has come since then. They played a game while working on calf raises. Bella’s headache was pretty intense at the time but she fought through it and worked hard for Kat.
Unfortunately, no doctors examined Bella after her double vision went away. Her Austin neuro was not able to make it to the hospital today (Bella was examined by the on call neuro). I’m hoping he’ll be able to stop by tomorrow. The test results from the labs that were sent out Saturday have not come back yet and we are still waiting on the records from previous tests from Dallas to be sent here (seriously don’t understand why this takes so long. I know they are sent electronically so what’s the hang up?).
I’m pulling overnight duty tonight and as luck would have it, all of the rooms around us are full. We were one of the only ones here over the weekend on the neuro floor but Monday brought in a lot of new patients . I’m afraid it’s going to be a noisy night. Let’s hope this really is our last night here!
Thanks to Jeffry and Shelly for stopping by this evening! And thanks to all of you for the outpouring of love and support and prayers! We are so blessed!