wow, well many of you may not know, zach had a seziure on saturday, the 19th of july (a date im BANNING from our house... last year we learned of the defect this year the seziure..) i had just come home from the grocery store and he began to twitch. we ended up calling 911 and 10 minutes later they were taking my baby to the er, the er in turn took him to the big hospital 30 minutes away....where zach spent a huge part of his life.
once he got to the hospital they ran a head CT and found BLOOD on his brain...typically this is from shaken baby syndrom or a car wreck, so of course it wasnt looking good for us. one of the docs that know us came to us to tell us she wasnt going to call CPS but another doctor may. we were devistated not only are we now facing a whole new issue but now there is thought we may have to fight CPS! im so tired of fighting.
on monday zach had numerous tests, full body xrays to make sure there were no fractures, none were found. blood and urine tests, mri, everything seemed okay. then the eeg came, it showed seziure activities. so zach was started on a seziure medication.
yesterday zach had a eye test to make sure there was no hemmoraging behind the eyes, none was found. the blood seems to be old and thats a good thing i suppose. it doesnt appear to be still bleeding. they are treating him for some pretty big infections that he probably doesnt have, but they have no way of knowing for sure since they cant do a spinal tap on him to rule them out due to the blood on his head, so they are testing him for menengitis and herpies.
the CT on saturday also revealed something we werent ready for, Zach's brain is smaller than it should be, they call it brain atrophy, and apparently it is Cerebal Palsey. wham i mean when things start hitting the fan around here they all go nuts! so this could explain zach being unable to do much motorly, no holding his head, no holding toys, no rolling. not sitting...etc. im so upset and so relieved...does this make sence? i know it may sound bad, but i "knew" something wastn right so now we know what it could be and maybe we can start working on to helping him more. also with his brain being so small there is a much more easy chance of blood entering the skull, so it doesnt have to be so tramatic to happen, he could litterally turn his head and it happen. how scary!
so the doctors want to do surgery tomorrow, to release the blood on his brain. this is quite scary for us, not only cause its a huge surgery, dealing with his head, and his 3rd surgery in nearly 9 months, but they will also have to intubate him and im worried how this will go.
Chance and Mikey are doing okay back home. they spent the first few days with grandparents and then dad was able to come home about 10 hours after zachs seziure and he stayed here with zach, now he is with the boys. i just wish we were home as a family. please pray for a smooth surgery.
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