Noah's Recovery

We were hoping to leave the hospital Wednesday, but we stayed until Thursday. Little Noah just couldn't wake up. With all the medication and the intensity of his seizure, he slept/was unconscious for 24 hours straight. Over the next 12 hours, he would wake briefly and then sleep a lot. Noah had to eat and drink before he could lose the IV. As the ICU doctor said, we couldn't take the saline bag home with us. Wednesday night, he finally drank some juice and Thursday morning he ate a pancake. Geoff and I felt very fortunate to take our baby home from the ICU, not all parents get to do that.

Little Noah's recovery has been steady. On Thursday, he could not sit up by himself. But he kept trying. He wasn't really able to walk until Saturday, but again, not from a lack of trying. Noah personified getting back up when you get knocked down. The last 2 days he is sleeping less (more normally) and getting around better. His Neurologist thought he may experience some temporary communications delays because his seizure was located in the temporal lobe which has a communication function for the brain. But he has retained his signed words and is still doing his true babbling.

We will meet with our Neurologist in the next few weeks to learn what he has about Noah. Noah definitely gave him plenty of information about his seizures.

Please all of you who emailed, Facebooked, or left us messages here or on our phones, know how much that sustained us during this really hard time. We really felt all of your love, prayers, and good wishes and it meant the world to us to know we had people who cared about us and our little guy. Thank you. Love, Amy