Ups and downs

The roller coaster ride continues. Yesterday was a good day. We finally reached the top of the "to-do list" of the landscape company we hired to clean up brush and lay down pine straw. Four guys worked hard all day, and Sharon was thrilled with the results. Sharon also thinks she saw baby wood ducks swimming in the lake near our shoreline. Our wood duck box clearly has been occupied this spring, but one never knows if any babies will emerge. Between the dramatically improved appearance of the yard and the duck babies, Sharon was very cheerful.

Today has not been a good day. This morning, Sharon had another seizure. She was fine afterward -- speaking normally, able to grasp my hand firmly, and able to take her pills. Sharon is resting comfortably, but morale here is not at its peak. We'll call UAB tomorrow to see if they think we should change anything about Sharon's treatment plan. I doubt they will want to move her next MRI up. It's been 16 days since the last seizure. My impression in the past has been that they would only change the MRI schedule if a patient was seizing routinely or experiencing a dramatic downturn in physical abilities.

The days leading up to today were hard on Sharon. Sharon had the endoscopy on Wednesday, the snake incident on Thursday (she thought she might seize during that fiasco), and then she had zero sleep on Friday night due to increasing her steroid dose to combat her head pain. My optimistic angle is that perhaps all of that combined stress was the culprit behind today's problem.