Several someones, actually. So here we are. St. Francis FINALLY scheduled Justin's MRI for July 19. I called his doctor one day last week, though, and made him an appointment for the bad headaches he's been getting. The headaches have been localized to his forehead. My initial suspicion was migraines, but he has no light or sound sensitivity and it seems while the intensity comes and goes, the headache is a steady constant.
Anyway, so we took him in to the doctor and had him checked out. The doctor said his sinuses and allergies seemed to be well under control and that, while it could still be migraines, she was more suspect of neurofibromas on his brain. Due to the recent discoveries with my heart, they went ahead and did an EKG. His EKG came back fine, praise God. I told her neurofibromas were my fear, as well, but that the soonest they could get him in for an MRI was the 19 of July. She said to give her until morning to get it sooner and that if we couldn't make it any sooner, we would do a CT scan here. She said neurofibromas are typically too small to see with CT scans, but if they're causing him pain, we would likely be able to see something. The doctor's office called the next morning and let me know they would see him this past Thursday.
We went in for his MRI and sat....and waited for nearly two hours. Turns out, he wasn't able to have his MRI that day, so we loaded up and headed home. They've rescheduled him for tomorrow, Monday at 11:30. It worked out, though, because the geneticist also called to reschedule and moved his appointment to Wednesday morning @ 8:00 am. So, God willing, we should have a LOT of answers by the end of this week. If we don't have answers, we'll at least have direction.
In other news, Jaleigh has a tooth now. One, lone bottom tooth. It's adorable and, as of this morning, a second tooth has broken the gum. You hear about these sweet babies who just magically have teeth and you never knew they were cutting them. She's NOT one of those babies. She's made the entire world miserable as this tooth has come into her life. I anticipate the same for the next one. We're waiting for her to just take off walking. She's cruising and a couple of times, she's let go of whatever she's holding on to like she's just going to take off across the room. Naturally, she plops to the floor, instead. The effort is definitely there, though.
Our goal is to go home Thursday of this week. I'm ready. I'm so ready to go home I'm afraid I'll protest when it's time to come back to OK. I miss my momma. We've lived away before and I remember thinking back, thinking it was so wonderful (and it was...), but you forget how much you miss your family. Your life without those staple people in it just has a big, fat void. Jess and I are just prone to things going wrong, unfortunately, and it's so much easier for things to go wrong when your family is there by your side. We're very blessed, though, no matter how much we miss them because God has provided us a church family made up of a stellar group of people. We're blessed, but we need a good helping of home. Hopefully, for all our sake, we'll get it very soon.
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