All treatments done, on the home stretch
Corey had his last treatment on Wednesday, which was a spinal. He’s got the process all worked out. He tolerated it all pretty well until we got to the operating theatre. Once we got their he didn’t want a bar of the anesthetic. He screamed. It doesn’t hurt, they put it in through the IV that’s already in his hand. But he put up a fight, once the drugs kicked in he was asleep. He was fine waking up, looking around to see where I was. For the first 3 hours he was relaxed. He lay still however he didn’t go to sleep. Then he started getting restless. I thought he might be hungry so as it approached the 4 hr mark I made him something to eat, but he didn’t want it. He was getting worse so I called for the doctor. He started really crying and began vomiting (not that he had anything to vomit except stomach acid). By this stage the doctor had arrived. He arranged for Corey to have a injection in his leg to stop the vomiting and calm him down. This took about 20 mins to kick in. Once he calmed down his eyes got heavy and he eventually went to sleep. The doctors believe he had a reaction to the anesthetic. I thought it was strange as he had already had 3 before and didn’t have this reaction. The doctor said that people can react differently following each treatment. Perhaps it was because he got so upset when receiving the anesthetic. The next day Corey was feeling better. As the day progressed his appetite returned to normal and he was fine. They cancelled his PT for the day to let him have a good days rest. Since than we have continued working on our PT. His sitting up is getting better all the time. He is actually trying to sit up in bed on his own. He isn’t succeeding yet but the fact that he is trying really shows how much more aware he is of his front torso muscles. He pulls himself forward in the stroller now which again he wouldn’t do before. I am slowly getting a little further away from him once I’ve put him in the sitting position.
Unfortunately the walking isn’t progressing that much. He seems to still have some discomfort when he weight bears in the standing position. I asked the doctors about this today and they said to not push to hard with the walking yet as he may still be getting lower back pain where they did the injections.
We have one more day of PT (Monday) and than on Tuesday we catch our plane home. I plan to do one more update before departing China. Than I hope to keep it up (most likely less frequent) from home.
Your comments have been very much appreciated by us both and we look forward to getting home and catching up with you all again.
1 comment September 1st, 2008
