I figure I'll use this blog for random posts, and this one's definitely appropriate.
I'm sorry to have been missing from the blogosphere lately. Truth is, we had a bit of a family scare. Here's the skinny:
About a month or so ago my youngest daughter had gone to the school nurse's office complaining about
blurry vision. It came and went quickly, but we took her to see an eye doctor, thinking she might need glasses.
The eye doctor ran a series of tests and was concerned about
papilledema, or swelling of the
optic nerves. She ordered a MRI, which freaked us out a bit.
She had the MRI two weeks ago, and it came out perfect. Whew! No tumors or anything else physically wrong inside her noggin! Still, we had to see a neurologist the next day for an official ruling.
The neurologist also saw nothing wrong, but noticed the bilateral swelling of her optic nerves. He ordered blood drawn and scheduled a
spinal tap for fluid and pressure testing.
She had the spinal last week. She was scared, but cooperative, even though she cried through the whole thing. They couldn't knock her out because the drug for that would have messed up the pressure reading. They did give her "loopy drugs" though, which made her forget the ordeal.
She slept off the drugs for an hour, got up and was fine, though somewhat off balance from being doped up. She downed a juice box and kept it down, and was cleared for release. We had a follow up with the neurologist in an hour, so we took her to the cafeteria for her first meal of the day (lunch).
She continued to get back to normal, ate like a pig, and gabbed it up, and we then went down to see the neurologist.
Her pressure was fine, and there's no indication that there is anything neurologically wrong! Best news to date! Still, we go back to the eye doctor for a re-check and to look into other causes. It could be an existing condition that she's always had, we don't know. At least for now we know it's not anything we need to worry about regarding her
brain and nervous system!
The next week was a rocky one for her. Spinal headaches bothered her for several days after, and she caught a nasty stomach bug in the middle of it all. This past Tuesday she had her first full day of no headaches. Wednesday she had a half-day a school with no issue, and today she was back in full swing with a full day of school and then dance class, with no issues.
I'm very glad (and that's putting it mildly) that she's back to herself again, though I'm still concerned over what might be up with her eyes. At least we know that her brain and nervous system are fine!
So that's what's been preoccupying my mind, aside from working and the usual day to day stuff. I'll try to get back into things on techcommdood.com soon.
