I will jump right in... Some of you know about this and have been more in the loop than others but the past month or so has been very stressful and hectic but HistoryBoy is doing better. He started new medication. It has only been 3 days but he seems to be doing well. The official diagnosis is Generalized Epilepsy. I will know more about that when we go back to the neurologist this coming Thursday. A tutor is going to be coming out from his school to work with him to get him caught up. I think he is probably a week or so behind in work at this point. I have been keeping his up to a point, but only so much has come home.
I will give you a recap...
If you didn't know, this all started just over a month ago. HistoryBoy passed out at school. The school had called me to say he wasn't feeling well and I asked him to try to make it past lunch. They called me back a little later and asked to come and pick him up and said that he had passed out. I took him home and checked him out myself, he seemed okay, he said he hadn't been feeling well so we went home, but he woke up the next morning with and awful headache so I took him to the ER just to be safe. They checked him out, did a CAT scan and found nothing wrong, other than a bump on his head from where he had hit his head on the floor when he passed out. That was a Thursday and Friday.
He is off the Weekend. He goes back to school on Monday and seems fine. Tuesday I get a call that HistoryBoy has passed out again. I was picking him up early for an Dr. appt that day anyway. When I pick him up, he has a black eye forming and a lump on the back of his head. We go to the doc, his psychiatrist. She checks him out. She recommends he gets an EKG, EEG, follows up with Neuro and his pediatrician who we were going to she the next day. I call the ped the next morning. He tells up, go to the ER again. This time the ER are MUCH more thorough. They do blood work, another CAT scan, and an EKG. Fortunately everything there come back good, except that he has a concussion and should not be in school for about a week just to be safe, but follow up with pediatrician and neurologist. (YAY more dr appt)
We go to Ped. turns out along with this concussion HistoryBoy has, he also has 2 horrible ear infections. He probably couldn't feel them because of the headache from the first bump on the head and now with the headache he has now, it would be tough to distinguish though the pain. So toss some antibiotics into the mix and go to the neuro now. Neuro checks him out, does EEG and sleep study and recommends seeing a cardiologist, in there they also tweek his meds and add LOTS of fluids to his diets and some salt to retain fluid and raise his blood pressure. His EKG from the cardiologist was clean, thankfully. :-) The EEG showed that he is having seizures. They recommended a medication that has almost no side effect or interactions with other medications which is perfect for HistoryBoy considering the meds he is already on. We have started the medication. So far so good. I will keep you updated once I know anything more. The sleep study (test) we won't get the results for another week or so. I am hoping they will have them when we go on Thurs but I do not know.
Thank you all for you thoughts and prayers. We appreciate it.
