Thursday, February 17, 2011

Update 2/17

The neurologist finally came last night at 7pm! He said he got my page (you can page him through his office answering machine), wish I'd done that a lot earlier. I told him how I was waiting here for him from 7am, he asked why didn't call his office. I did!
So, he said that the general dr put an order in to do another MRI, this time of the whole spine. He thought it was unecessary that they do another MRI and he would be really suprised if anything showed up. He said he definitely thinks its the GBS.
I told him how I have been doing research about it all week he asked ME if I had found anything new about GBS! I said,
"Me?" I thought he was joking.
He says "Well you're doing all the research I just wondered if there was anything new with GB." Unfortunately not. Ha, kinda funny.

So, this morning he had his MRI at 8am. I just got here to the hospital and the neurologist was already in the room. He said MRI was normal. That in a week or so Evan will come back to him to do a nerve conduction study to test his nerves but that he should see improvement in 4-6 weeks probably. If it gets worse then we call the primary Dr, call him or go straight to the ER. (I think we will be heading down to the UCLA ER if that's the case).
He has one more night of treatment, tonight, and then he will be released tomorrow. Yay! :) Except that we just don't know what his physical future holds. So lets hope it doesn't get worse.

The general Dr. just came in as well and said he is fine and he will be released tomorrow and he will see him tomorrow.

Speech therapist came in the room and said she can tell that his speech is better and to continue doing excerices. Outpatient therapy was recommended.

Physical therapist just took him out and said he was her best patient and that he's doing great. To continue doing outpatient physical therapy.

We have a copy of the MRI with us just in case. I paged the Case Worker just to follow up with her and....what else am I forgetting.

Its nice to see an end to being here in the hospital, we just hope its a good thing. :)

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