PICU - Day 3

This morning, the doctors seemed impressed with just how well Garrett is doing. Obviously, we're not in the clear yet, they're still watching his kidneys and liver, and monitoring how his heart and lungs are responding to the embolization. But it's encouraging just the same.

An EEG and MRI were done this afternoon. It sounds like any time there is a procedure done to treat something in the brain, there's a chance for subclinical seizure (a seizure in which an EEG will show abnormal brain activity, but which does not present any noticeable clinical signs or symptoms). They did find one subclinical seizure in the 30-minute window they were looking at, so they gave him some anti-seizure medication and will be monitoring him with an EEG overnight to see if he has any more. The neurologist indicated anyone who has a subclinical seizure is at greater risk for seizures throughout life. 

I keep hoping that, with as young as Garrett is, he'll recover from all of this and his body will get right back on track with the type of development he'd experience if he hadn't had any problems ...

I don't expect to hear the results of the MRI until tomorrow. If everything looks good, they'll extubate him and we can begin working on nursing (which means I can hold him!). After the MRI, they began giving him breast milk through a feeding tube, and he appears to be tolerating that well.