Since last I got around to this, James has come off the drug honeymoon it seems we were having. In eight days, he went to the emergency room and was admitted all three times for seizures. Yesterday (Monday), 3 days after getting home, he had to go in for vomiting, not seizures, although there were seizures because he was not holding down his meds.
We are trying injections of Ativan at home, since the oral Ativan has not been stopping anything. Last Friday that kept us from another trip back to the ER. This is pretty unusual, but NOTHING ELSE IS WORKING, and we cannot keep going to the ER for the rest of our lives. We might as well just move into the hospital.
It will not surprise you to know that James's parents are about circling the drain themselves. Mary is taking off a couple of weeks at least, and I am already only minimally functional. We have gotten Michael out of algebra because he has been getting farther and farther behind, and Dad is finally past the point of being able to sit with him the hours it would take to catch him up. We really don't have a fix on Michael's mental state, but it can't be ideal, since he is missing assignments and school regularly. I think we all need to curl up in our respective corners for a while, but James keeps having seizures and life otherwise keeps moving.
Please, please pray that James will be able to keep down his higher doses of meds and that they will work. Pray for the rest of us as well. We are out of fuel and there isn't a station nearby.
Hard to believe it is God's will for us all to collapse. B
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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