Thursday, November 09, 2006

After our scare a couple of weeks ago with the worsening seizures, things started to get better again. Whew! He's now back to having 10-20 seizures a day, and maybe a little smaller again. No more signs of anything like a drop.
Somehow, we totally forgot both his Lamictal and Felbatol last Friday night. Strangely enough, he slept better that night and had a good day on Saturday. This has inspired us to start lowering his Lamictal again, which we did last Saturday. He is now only taking 25mg/day. Hopefully he can be completely off of it in a few weeks.

John got his ferritin level checked again today. We'll get results next week. Hopefully his levels are better. I think we'll have to monitor this for awhile, as we still don't have a good reason as to why his level was so low.

We made the decision to take John out of his preschool class. It was just too much for him. We are now looking to get him enrolled in another special needs class, as well as potentially starting music therapy. Yoshie has also started doing multiple therapy sessions with him daily. He's up to 60 minutes at a time now!

We did have another meeting with EI, which was attended by 7 or 8 people (not including us). The meetings seem to grow each time. John will be getting a 1 on 1 aid starting next week. It's only for 1 month, but that is a good start. Yoshie will be leaving him at the door and won't return until class is over, at least that is the plan. They know that John will likely cry the whole time, so we talked about ways to prevent that. I'm sure the first week will be tough, but hopefully he will adapt quickly.

Unfortunately, after being almost perfectly potty trained for a few months, John has been having frequent accidents over the last couple of days, even at night. I'm not sure what is causing this, but I don't think it's reason for worry unless it persists. It could be another withdrawal symptom from lowering the Lamictal.

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