Ear Infection!

Oliver was being a bit cranky on Monday and had a little fever so we took him to the dr Tuesday morning. He has an ear infection, but luckily despite being sick and having a fever we didn't see a seizure increase so that's good! He is on Augmentin which is really roughing up his stomach. For some reason the past 2 times we've tried to give him his Vigabatrin he's projectile vomited all over the place. Once his stomach is empty we've been able to get some Vigabatrin in there but we don't know if it's the full dose or if we overdosed him (hard to tell how much was absorbed before he vomited). Poor little guy. The good news is, he hasn't had a fever since monday night and he IS keeping the Augmentin down so hopefully we can figure out a way to get him all his meds without any vomiting and in 10 days the ear infection will be gone and he'll be back to just the Vigabatrin. I think a shot of ACTH would be easier to administer that is point!

Oliver had his EI evaluation yesterday, finally. Looks like they are recommending PT once a week, OT twice a month, and Speech once a month. Once his strength gets better on the PT side they'll ramp up the other therapies. Hopefully they will find a team of therapists really soon and we can get him started with the home therapy and see some improvement. They did stress trying to get him to start on solids to help with the muscles needed for speech, so maybe after this ear infection madness is over we'll slowly introduce some runny cereal and see how he takes to it. Next dr appt is 4/28 with neurology and then 6 month checkup on 4/30. Still not sure what we're going to do about vaccines but I would personally like to wait awhile to do any live ones and if we do any that aren't live, space them out a month or so so that we know if he has a reaction to a specific one. We'll see what neuro says.

in between ear infection crankiness and just being generally miserable about being sick and vomiting he did give me a couple quick smiles this morning. Always nice to see.

I ordered some really cute stuff for his new room and Jason put the crib back into a crib for him (it was a toddler bed for Tobin until Tobin got his twin bed a few weeks back). Oliver now has a mobile and musical crib toy and super cute lamp, hamper, nightlight. Check out the cocalo alphabet soup collection for really cute nursery bedding and stuff. We're going to order some giraffe decals for his room and then it'll be fully decorated. I pulled some good developmental toys out of the attic for Oliver to play with while he's working out at home. Hopefully we can find a few things that really catch his interest and motivate him to roll over or bop them with his hands!