Kade has four treatments and has one last one this up coming monday. His spinal went very well today, although, he was not asleep at all for it. They gave him some medicine to sleep and again did not give him any valume. He seemed to do a lot better than last time, and was a happy camper when they brought him back out. He was talking and smiling for about 2 hours after the procedure and then finally feel asleep. We thought keeping him on his back was going to be difficult, but Kade has been really good about laying down. As far as improvemetns go, we have seen a number of little things. For example, his eyes, in my opinion, have started to dialate more, he’s more confident in everything he does like crawling, standing, which he has been standing for longer periods of time. He also has been turning his head both ways, where as before he would only turn his head a little to the left to get some type of stimulation. We think it may be because he is seeing some light or getting some kind of stimulation from each eye. Another thing that we have noticed is he is talking a lot more and is starting to understand what you tell him. For example, we let him crawl on the bed and if you tell him to find the wall he will crawl to it, (sometimes), and right before he gets to it, (most of the time), he will put his hand out and feel for the wall. Some more things he does, is when you tell him to clap his hands, he will, and when you tell him to say words like mama, dada, go, uh-oh, wow, he will repeat what you told him to say. This, however, may be from just developing age wise, but on the other hand we would like to think it is because of the treatments.
Kade has his last treatment on Mon, but we don’t leave until the following Saturday, so we will have a lot of time to kill, and money to spend lol. We can’t tell you how much we are excited to almost be home and continue our journey for the next couple of months, as Kade hopefully improves even more. We will write more soon….and pray that we get some sleep tonight lol.
