Steroids - We hope there isn't a T-Ball "Juicing Scandal"

12/16/2007

OK, Jessie is on a 6 week cycle of Steroids in hopes that it will take care of this "Focal Encephalitis". We are hopeful and optimistic as Christmas nears.

She will be on high-doses of steroids (Prednisone) and we will probably see some weight gain, puffy cheeks, and some hyper activity. That's OK with us if it fixes this thing.

Also, a disease called Rasmussen's Encephalitis (RE) was discussed at the hospital. I'd read some about it. The neurologist didn't seem to think that it was presenting like RE, but they couldn't rule it out. One good sign is that they couldn't correlate Jessie's finger twitching with the epileptic spikes on her EEG. So that was a good sign that this probably wasn't Rasmussen's Encephalitis.

Rasmussen's Encephalitis is a really, really, really scary disease. We are praying that it isn't that.

Cris

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