Bump in the road....

Friday Sherry became worse and had Jody and I both pretty worried. Not only was she unable to use her right arm and hand at all, she began to slur her speech and her right hand began to twitch uncontrollably. We got ahold of the neurologist on call at 8 in the morning and he determined that Sherry has probably been experiencing a "flurry of seizure activity" over the last several days. He prescribed an additional anti-seizure medication and ordered blood and urine tests. The urine test later showed that Sherry has a urinary tract infection. We were told that this could actually trigger these seizures. Sherry has not had any seizures for well over three months, maybe longer (at least none that we are aware of). We could not figure out why she was having them now, but it was probably the infection. The doctor wanted Sherry to take a very large dose of the additional meds in a short amount of time. Later, we started her on anti-biotics to combat the infection. She started to show some improvement shortly after starting the new meds. By the time I got home from work, she was no longer slurring her words, and her hand had pretty much stopped twitching. She still cannot really use her right arm and hand, but the doctor said that should come back over the next few days. So, we are guardedly hopeful, just hoping the doctor has this right. He sounded very confident to me over the phone, so we are waiting and watching. Sherry is just taking it very easy this weekend and says she feels like things are getting better.

We have not hit a bump in the road like this for quite some time. If things settle down and she can begin to use her arm and hand again soon, this will have just been a short interruption on her road of recovery. If however, she cannot then this will have become a real setback as we will have to focus her therapy on getting it back. Only time will tell. I will keep you all posted.

Enough for now,

I love my wife....tomorrow we move forward,

Dean