Whew what a week!

Oh where to begin! Well Keegan got out of his therapy this past week. He got sick on us Wed. morning and he ended up vomitting three times. We were worried we were going to have to take him to the hospital because along with the puking he was not passing gas or pooping so we were worried that he had an obstruction starting. So we put Keegan on clear liquids and also irrigated him out really well and after about two days started to act like he felt better. He actually goes to see his surgeon tomorrow in St. Louis so I'll make sure and tell him about that and see what he thinks! It's hard to believe that Halloween is this weekend! Keegan is going to dress up like a monkey and help pass out candy so that should be cute! Well I hope everyone is having a great week!!!

Eye appointment!

Well Keegan had an eye appointment yesterday and his doctor doesn't think that Keegan needs glasses yet anyway. He said Keegan's problem isn't with his vision it's with the brain sending neurons to the eye and vice versa. Since Keegan had a brain bleed, has a shunt, and CP he doesn't know how well the brain and the eye are working together. So we will just have to see as he gets older how he does, but he doesn't have to see him for six months. In the mean time though Keegan is suppose to have an evaluation by a developmental therapist that specializes in vision only, so I think I may wait and see what she says and then maybe see if we need to get referred to someone else or if we can just take him somewhere to get glasses, so once again it's a waiting game! Today though he gets to have speech and developmental therapy together!! Yay!

(The picture above is Keegan concentrating with one of his therapist!!)

So far this week!

Well Keegan had a nice relaxing weekend at Mamaw and Papaw's house! He pretty much got to be spoiled all weekend and saw all of his cousins!! He had Speech therapy yesterday and actually did very well!! He's starting to babble alot more so now we're working on trying to get him to make the correct sounds to make words!!!

Oh what a night...

So I jinxed us when I said Keegan hadn't been to the hospital in 4 months! Keegan hasn't been acting like his usually happy self for about a week, but alot of kids at Kevin's school had been sick so we just figured that Kevin had brought something home. Well Tuesday and Wed. Keegan was sleeping alot more and not eating and then Wed. his eyes were rolling down alot, which sometimes can mean extra fluid in the brain. So our pediatrician sent us down to St. Louis Children's Hospital to see our Neurosurgeon. While they were examining him Keegan started staring into space almost and they thought he was having silent seizures, but the Neurosurgeon disagreed! So all of Keegan's xray's and ct scans came back normal but they admitted us for observation. They also told us that since Keegan gets so much gas on his belly that the gas build up could slow down the draining fluid and that can make him present with shunt malfunction symptoms but Keegan did a 360 during the night and was back to acting like his normal self so they let us come home this morning!! Yay, so now he's back in his own bed and acting silly as usual!

Oh what a weekend

Well Keegan had his first taste of the Barry Apple Festival this weekend! He had to miss out on the Parade though b/c he decided it was nap time, but later on he got to sample his first Apple Dumpling and didn't seem to mind it at all!!! He had a pretty quiet weekend and got a rest from his therapies for a few days! He'll start back up tomorrow and Thursday, so we'll see how he does! Hope everyone had a great weekend!!!

PT & OT

Well yesterday's therapy didn't go as well as we wanted. Keegan seems to still have stranger anxiety with his two therapist but he did really well for the first ten minutes and then they took a toy away from him to switch it to his left hand and he threw a temper tantrum the rest of the time, so next week we're going to have me stay outside the room and see if he'll do better with them because when he gets upset he instantly looks for me to come and pick him up, so we shall see. He is still doing more and more things than before so we'll still take that!!!

Developmental Therapy

It's so hard to believe it's already October 1st!! Time is just flying by for us!! Keegan did absolutely wonderful in therapy today!! Just these past two weeks he has really really improved. Today he was able to hold a toy in his left hand for 5 minutes and he did this twice. Usually when we put a toy in his left hand he automatically drops it but today he was actually shaking and banging the toy! He also sat up very well today and had more control with his head!! So slowly but surely our little guy is getting there. Now I just hope physical therapy and occupational therapy go just as well tomorrow!!