Kathryn and Kimberly: Another round...

Hey! Well, we have completed another round of hospital visit and multiple doctor visits. Last Wednesday, as we were about to have dinner Kathryn had a couple differene episodes of a seizure. The nurse of course sent us directly to the ER. After running some tests at the ER they decided they wanted to admit us to the PICU (Pedatric Intensive Care Unit) so that she could be monitored some more and also run some more tests. Thankfully she only spent 1 night in the PICU, and then 1 night in a regular room. They were never able to determine the cause of the seizure. They do know that it was NOT fever related...1. Because she was not running a fever and 2. Because it was very localized to the right side of her body and a fever related seizure would be more uniform across the whole body. We did spend some time talking to the neurologist and he assured us that it is not uncommon to have a seizure and not be able to find the cause. He words were that it might be better that we didn't find the cause, because when they DO find something its usually something serious like a tumor or malformation of the brain. However, he was a bit concerned when he learned that she had some issues with her blood sugar a few months ago. He said that the main symptoms of a beta oxidation disorder are low blood sugar and seizures. So, we are going to meet with him again in a couple of weeks to follow up more thoroughly on this issue.

We are still working to figure out whats causing their GI issues. Poor things are still having some awful weird bowel movements. But, we are keeping track of things in a journal and hopefully we will be able to pick out the foods that irritate them the most soon!

On the VERY POSITIVE side we did get some good news from their doctor this week...they are BOTH gaining weight again! :) They are not back up to the same percentile they were in before they got sick, but at least the scales are moving UP and not down anymore!! YAY!!!

The girls are just growing up and changing so fast! Every day they learn something new and I am just so amazed with them. I feel so blessed to be their mother and am so Thankful that I get the joy of staying home with them each day to watch them grow.

You would love all the things they are learning to do....lets see...they found the oreos Mommy left in the living room the other morning and had a pre-breakfast snack. (And they sure know how to eat oreos, the first thing they did when they got caught was to ask for some milk.) They learned that if they push their chair down the hallway they can climb up on it and open doors that they want to go in. They have learned what it means to "spin in a circle" and LOVE to do that outside on the front lawn until they get dizzy and fall down. (Which is quite amusing to watch!!) They also love airplanes and when one flies overhead while we're outside they'll point at it and wave to it and follow it all the way across the sky and then when it is out of reach they say "bye-bye".

Well, that is all I have for now. But of course, here are some pictures for you....

Take a moment to notice what is going on in this picture....See the cracker on the floor over to the right. Yup...that cracker was laid down for the sole purpose of attacking sister to steal hers!