ER Trip

Last night we gave in and went to the ER.  Carrie had been struggling with seizures for days and finally decided it was worth trying the ER.  She was seizing when we got there, and when the nurse got out to the truck.  That got her a speedy trip on a bed to the back.  They took blood, gave her pain meds, and decided to increase her depakote dosage.  Gee, this isn’t something that should have happened months ago?  lol  All this took 4 hours.  That kinda sucked.  But rainy Austin nights means a lot of crash victims, slowing down the doctors.  Driving home at 2am in the fog wasn’t so fun, but we survived.

So it turns out her increased metabolism due to eating right and exercising is probably what caused her medicine to drop.  I’m hoping this increased dose will give her the leeway to workout and not have seizures.  They are also forwarding her chart to the neurologist, though they didn’t do anything last time except schedule a test no one will pay for.  We’ll see what happens this time. 

I took the morning off, arriving to work at 11.  That was still less than 7  hours of sleep however, so I’m a bit out of it.  So far I’ve only answered phones and did a minimal amount of paperwork.  I guess I’ll have to work soon when my boss returns from lunch.  lol  There is work to do, so I can’t complain, just prefer a nap right now.

Oh, and on the plus side, the nurses were really good to Carrie last night.  The crew may have been slow due to other issues, but they were excellent otherwise.  Yay!