New drug

We saw the developmental pediatrician yesterday, and she prescribed Metadate CD for John's hyperactivity. This drug is the same as Ritalin LA. One capsule lasts for about 8 hours. We HATE giving John more drugs, but it seemed like it was time to try something. He can't concentrate very well, which makes it really hard to learn anything. We're hoping this will help him to focus, without taking away anything from his personality. Side effects include increase in heart rate, decrease in appetitite, and of course a lowering of seizure threshold. :(

Today was the first dose and according to Yoshie, it isn't working - he's as active as ever. This is a small dose, and there are many other meds to choose from, but of course we were hoping the first one would do the trick.

Also, John's quick little seizures have been increasing in number so we increased his Keppra recently to 2.5ml twice a day. John is still doing great, but we want to stop this increase in seizures before it gets out of hand.

Johns cut seems to be healing nicely. He's going to have quite a scar, but other than that seems to have no other issues.