Too tired and drained to post the happenings of this week. You can catch up on Eric’s blog posts below.

I will most likely post about what happened this past week. I just need time to rest my mind after being away from home for the past four days. Plus, I need to order a pizza and eat. I’m starving. I’ve had enough hospital food in the past 6 months to last me a lifetime.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

I apologize for not posting more music for y’all lately, but some things are more important than music. My wife rushed my young daughter to the emergency room yesterday morning because she had a short seizure. She had four (in total) before she got a high dose of anti-seizure medication. This is in addition to (and possibly correlated with) the nasty diarrhea she has been having for the past 10 days. The doctors have performed a bunch of tests but we are still waiting for results from most of them.

I’m physically and mentally drained from this (as is my wife). I feel so helpless in this situation that I just want to cry. Maybe that’s just me being overly emo (bad joke, I know). The seizures could be possibly caused by infection of some sort, a neurological problem, or they may simply be ideopathic. At this point its too early to tell. I just want my baby to be ok and back to her normal, happy, sunshiney, smiling self.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

I want to thank everyone for all your support during this trying time. I wasn’t going to post today, but… It seems that at least in this realm there truly is a sense of like-mindedness and community facilitated through all our silly little blogs. It is comforting to know that people are thinking and about us and sending positive vibes our direction. Even Brooklyn Vegan showed me some love today when we really needed it. Tim Young also posted the awesome second installment of the Contrast Podcast featuring a selection from yours truly.

Now for the update since I’ve managed to make it to a computer. As previously mentioned, my daughter was admitted to the hospital this past Tuesday and had (in total) four seizures. Many tests were done and extremely serious things like bacterial meningitis (the spinal tap was clear) or neurological disorders (the MRI and EEG were normal) were basically ruled out, but no root cause has yet been discovered. Frustrating but not totally unexpected. While seizures in children are not all that commonplace, when they do occur they are very frequently ideopathic (having no known cause).

At this point in time, we (as well as the neurologist we spoke with and the primary care doctors) believe that my daughter’s seizures were most likely caused by the same bacterial or viral infection that is responsible for her ongoing illness. We are just waiting for a few more test results to see if we can determine what is making her sick. Regardless, though, at this point we are optimistic that this has just been a once-in-a-lifetime episode and will not happen again. Things are looking up and she should (most likely) be on her way home tomorrow.

Again, thank you all so much for all the kind words. If any of you get the chance, send some of those words in the direction of my wife (leave a comment there) who is still at the hospital right now and has been through so much the past few days.