Friday Wrap Up

This has been one hell of a week! Last Saturday at about 1pm Westin came out of his room thinking he was having a low blood sugar. He checked and he was 73. Not low per say but treatable. I was doing dishes so I gave him a juice box and went back to the sink. A few moments later he walked out to me, sat the juice box down on the counter and tapped me on the arm. I turned to look at him to find he was in the midst of a partial seizure affecting his left side of his face. I was amazed that he could walk out to me and stand there while he was having it. It makes sense though as it was just a part of his brain seizing.

So then on Sunday his difficulty swallowing returned in a big way. It had kind of started days earlier but Sunday it was bad enough that he was upset by it. I called the gastro on call and got a script for flovent called in. So my kid with asthma has to use another inhaler, but this time he has to swallow it.

After playing back the last few months, since we stopped the prevacid, trying to figure out what caused the change in swallowing, we have decided either allergies or milk. So we stopped all dairy. Well, Westin stopped all dairy. I have also added a antihistamine to help with the extra post nasal drip due to the time of the year. Believe me, he is on plenty of allergy meds already. But he did complain about thick mucus and drainage. I read somewhere online that the post nasal drip could contribute to increased stomach acid, which could be causing the esophilic esophagitis (sp?). So I am going after both options at once. If we see some relief we will stop the flovent and see if we continue to see relief. If we do then we will re-add dairy and see what happens. Ugh, playing guinea pig with your kid is not fun!

Then on top of all of this he has had this tremor in his lip when he eats. I have to wonder if it is a residual effect from the seizure? It seems to be slowly going away.

So, this week can be written off as for the dogs. We did ZERO school work as I couldn't concentrate and neither could Westin. I am so glad he isn't in school. That would be a nightmare.