Aspynne Update 8-23-10

Can I just start by saying that I dropped my baby girl off at Kindergarten this morning?!?!? I can't believe that she is already in school. Where did the time go?

After drying my tears from the morning drop-off, I scooped up Aspynne to take her to the pediatrician. While this was her "18 month checkup," this is the first time we've seen the Pediatrician since the first seizure, and she was unaware that we had experienced a third on Saturday.

Aspynne's checkup went well. She has a viral infection that is causing her rash, her runny nose and her lovely diarreah, but it's nothing to worry about and just needs to run its course. I did find out that when Aspynne's immune system is weakened by something like a virus or an infection that she is more prone to seize, so it will be imperative that we try to keep her well and get her a flu shot this year.

I spoke with the Pediatrician about her episode on Saturday, and about our bad second visit with our current Neurologist. I told her that we did NOT want to have to go back to him, and that we wanted to put all of our efforts into getting into Cook Children's. She was behind us 100%, and said that she would call to see if she could get them to move up our October 27th appointment.

I had no more than pulled out of the parking lot of the Dr.'s office when Bob called me saying that the Dr.'s office had just called him, and that they had gotten us an appointment at Cook's for Monday. ?!?!?! This Monday??? As in a week from today? Yep....that's what I'm saying!

It's great news that we will get to go to Cook's so soon and get to talk to another Pediatric Neurologist about what's been going on with Aspynne. We will have the MRI in hand by then for them to examine, and we will take with us the EEG that was previously done, as well. With any luck, we will know something very soon.

I'll keep you all updated.