After surgery, Lucas did remarkably well. He is such a champ. :) Dr. Austin, the urologist, closed the little hole for good, it seems. Lucas is now all healed down there and we don't have to go back to Dr. Austin for a year and after that, not at all! We do really like Dr. Austin, but not enough to see him if we don't have to see him. :)
In other news, We are increasing Lucas' new seizure med- Lamictal- pretty rapidly now. We are going up in dose every week. It seems to be the trend that the seizures increase initially but then decrease right before we up the dose again. Today we increased up to 50mg twice a day. Next Monday we will call Dr. Burris' office (the neurologist) to see what he wants to do next.
Gauging the success of the meds may be a bit challenging currently due to the fact that Lucas has been sick pretty consistently for about five weeks, before we began increasing the meds more rapidly. He has had a cold with and without fever, a fever with no other symptoms, giantly swollen glands, an ear infection and a cough. His glands have been swollen for over three weeks. He did a round of amoxicillin while awaiting a strep culture which turned out to be negative. He is now taking a different antibiotic to fight an ear infection. (One of the side effects of which is giving him quite loose stools.) :( He doesn't seem to be too bothered by his ear the past two days, but he is still super snotty and his coughing has been increasing. Hopefully, it's just his system working to clear everything and get back to healthy. :) He has already missed multiple days of school and a lot of the time when he has been there, he has been sleeping, refusing to work or having seizures. We'll get through it though. I am confident in God and the amazing boy Lucas who is made in God's likeness. :)
He and Eliana are both getting so big. It is amazing how quickly it seems to happen. We will be shopping for a new gait trainer (assistive walking device) soon, as he has out grown the one we've had for the past couple of years. Eliana is not only walking all over, she's about in a full run and working on adding new words to her vocabulary daily. She recently learned 'potty', both in speech and sign and I am hoping to have her potty trained by 18 months. (She's 15 months now.) She started going potty on the potty at 11 months. We now just need her to recognize that she should tell us before she goes instead of as she's going or after she's gone. :)
We have some pictures on the camera, but we have yet to put them on the computer. When we do, I'll update the blog with a link to photos and video, if there is any. I am sure there is much more to say, but I think I am going to try to do something else in this rare time I've been given in which they are both asleep. :)
Blessings and love to you all! Thank you again for your faithfulness to our amazing Lucas Daniel, Boy Genius. :)
