Update from today.

Grandma is still stable an that is good. We are still in a "wait and see" pattern with her, but the doctors are happy with how she is doing right now. I just keep praying she makes a full recovery.

Mom is doing about the same. I think they are doing another CAT scan tomorrow to see if the blood clots are gone. She is ready to go home.

Asher's appointment went pretty good today. We had good news and bad news. Good news.....neurologically Asher seems to be doing great. He actually is testing out developmentally in the 8 to 9 months (except one area). This is great because just a little over a month ago he was testing out in the 5 to 6 month range in everything. I was so happy with that. Dr. Staat said that his reflexes we a little off. She said that just told her that neurologically he is still recovering. She wasn't worried at all though. She (and the nurses) just kept going on and on at how wonderful he was doing. Dr. Staat use to work in infectious disease and she knows tons about it (how fortunate are we that she is our IA Dr.?). She said she was around before vaccines for meningitis were around. She saw lots of kids with the disease. She reiterated how serious it can be. She has certainly seen kids die from it. It was just confirmed to me over and over again at the miracle God performed on our son. I am still just so humbled.

Ok, so for the bad news. Asher is testing out with a moderate hearing loss (it goes "mild, moderate, severe, profound). I was not shocked. There is some good news here though also. The ENT Dr. believes the hearing deficit is due at this point to the fluid that is still in his ears. He doesn't believe at this point that meningitis is the cause of his hearing problems. Now, if Asher gets his tubes in and still has a deficit, his opinion might change. So, yes, tubes were a no brainer. They recommend tubes for kids that have recurrent fluid in the ears or recurrent infections (like 3 to 4 in a 4 to 6 month period). Asher in his 2 short months with us has already met his quota. Poor dude. Right now his tube surgery is scheduled for April 8th but that might change if we can correlate that surgery with another surgery he needs to have done.

Thanks for your prayers so far. Really, you don't know how much I appreciate it!

Julie