Monday, November 30, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving....

We had a great Thanksgiving. Here are my three things I am thankful for....

For my Husband, Jeff, and for his love to me. I could not do what I do with out it.
For my family, friends and complete strangers who give us there love, affection, thoughts and prayers each and every day.
And most of all for my Son, Carson, he has taught us so much and for each and every day we get to love and cherish him here on Earth.

We spent Thursday at Aunt Jen's house, of course stuffing our bellies with amazing food. Friday afternoon the Bowman's came in from Iowa (G-ma and G-pa Bowman, Rob, Arica, Bryce, Brynn, Bailey). We had another Thanksgiving feast on Saturday. It was great to see and spend time with everyone.

On Friday, we took Carson to the Dr. he has tonsillitis again, and an ear infection. So we are on antibiotics again. We are scheduled to see an ENT on Dec 9 to talk about tonsillectomy. This would be more for his Obstructive Sleep Apnea (Carson will have episodes where he is trying to breathe, but his airways are closed. His air ways usually open up pretty quickly.). This will be a big decision for us....we are definitely going to do all our research first and see if we absolutely need this surgery.

We are very much looking forward to this weekend as well. Aunt Becky is flying in from Florida (we hope Uncle Marcos can also make it). We will celebrate Christmas with all the Latshaw's!!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

A long awaited update...

The last 2 months have been very challenging as Carson has been sick for the majority of it. Soon after my last post Carson started having crying spells. He is a kid who never cries, so when he does, there is something terribly wrong. We went through the list of what could be hurting, making him cry: pain with seizures, teeth pain, stomach pain, H1N1, C-dif (bacterial intestinal infection).... Mortin and Tylenol would not even touch the pain he was feeling, we had to give him Tylenol with Codine and Roxicet to give him a few hours of relief. We ended up at Children's Mercy ER on Halloween morning and was diagnosed with Tonsillitis, we were sent home with nothing they could do. A week later, Carson's pediatrician gave us some antibiotics, helped the throat, but gave him terrible gas, the kind with double you over cramps. We stuck it out and finished the antibiotics while also giving him extra strength Gaviscon for the gas. Just this last Wednesday Carson started getting back to his old self!!! (During the last 2 months, we had to stop playing and pretty much moving him because his pain was so high, or he just felt like crud and did not want to move). Carson has been playing with his bubbles and other toys again. What a relief to have our 'old' Carson back. Our stress level was getting pretty high!

Friday (11-20) we had our annual check up with the neurologist. Dr. Graf and his nurse Courtney was very pleased to see how well Carson has been growing and how he looks. However, they of course still conflicted, as we can not get all of Carson's seizures to go away. We have decided not to change anything at this time. We do still have plenty of growing room with the Neurontin.
Today he has been smiling a lot for us, we caught one with the camera so far. So great to have Carson back and feeling well!!

We love you all and are thankful for every one of you!!!