Maria did great on the new medication dose for a couple of days. Then Sunday when I was over I noticed she kept starting for no reason. Those of you who know her knows she’s kind of a jumpy girl anyhow but these were different. My suspicion was that she was having absence seizures, the kind where you just kind of fade out for a few seconds, and then starting when she suddenly came back.
Then Tuesday she apparently went totally ballistic. She had lots of seizures at school. They gave her the Clonazepam and it didn’t shut them down. At one point she aspirated really badly on her milk, which just made things even worse. Meanwhile Cathy was out of town on business and said she almost just jumped on a plane and came home.
She’s continued to have a bad week and is home from school today. Cathy’s back but of course she and Manolis are still worried. Maria’s also been acting like she has some kind of stomach bug. Since she’s spent so much time in the nurse’s office this week, where all those sick kids hang out, she might have gotten it from there.
Cathy’s been trying to get the school to video the seizures she’s having at school since what they describe is different than what we see, but apparently videotaping kids requires practically a presidential order so it’s been slow going. OK I understand protecting the kids, but if the freaking parent is providing the camera and asking for the video, shouldn’t that be enough?
I’m going over to take care of Maria later today and I think we’ll take it pretty easy.