Sunday, January 4, 2009

Sada's had a very relaxed weekend - on purpose. When she woke up Saturday morning, her eyes looked slightly bigger than normal. Not bug-eyed like the night we took her in, but just enough to show there's some increased pressure. Without nausea, vomiting, or any other symptoms there's no need to take her back to the hospital, but it means that the fourth ventricle isn't draining all the extra CSF and equalizing it like it should. It means that she gets to keep doing hyperbarics religiously this week, and she's sleeping like a princess on a feather bed with 4-5 pillows underneath wedged up so her head is slightly elevated all night to let gravity help with drainage.

Jeff did a little bit of ortho-bionomy (really light muscle work) today to help release her stiff neck muscles and help with drainage and found some humongous lymph nodes while he was at it. She hasn't had any low-grade fevers so her immune system seems to be keeping up with the extra work, even though her body is obviously working over-time to get back to normal. We can't do alot of extra lymphatic drainage because dumping everything too fast or loosening up junk too quickly will overload her liver after dealing with all that was pumped in through the IVs. So we're going for the "bit-by-bit" approach - followed closely by "wait-and see." If patience is a virtue, this family is going to have virtuitousness coming out our ears by the end of this year!

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