Saturday, November 24, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Well we had dinner at Michael's this year and what a feast.
The only news on our homefront is our small lad is going in to the hospital again. At least we have a date he is supposed to be going in on the 16th of December and we know he will be in for hopefully a week. We are going to try the Keto diet on him. You are all probably saying she is putting him on a diet but this is a special diet to hopefully control his seizures. The thing is his meds are not working and they won't do the surgery so the other options opened to us is try more meds or since he has the feeding tube we were given the green light to go ahead with the Keto diet.
The diet is something like the Aktins diet in which we make our body burn fat instead of sugars. The Keto diet follows the same pattern.3:1 ratio with the fats being the 3 and protein and carbs being the 1.
THe hopwful out come is Finnian will fall in to A: the diet works and we can wean him off his meds. B: The diet helps and he only needs to be on one or two at low doses to have seizure control or C: The diet doesn't work and we have to change his meds. We are hoping he will be in either A or B groups. IF we are in the C group well at least we tried.
Hopefully I will be taking our Christmas pics this week and I have 98% of my shopping done. So I am on top of things for a change.
Bye Ger and the Cat's in the Bronx

Friday, November 2, 2007

Trick or treat

Well the kids had fun doing Trick or treat. Maura made out like a bandit her bag was sooo heavy she couldn't carry it. Eoghan didn't do to bad and Finnian got candy too.I have to figure out how to post more pics I did it before but now they just see to go I don't know where.
Oh well
Bye

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Doctor's appointment

Well Finnian went to the pulmonary Doctor on tuesday and we came home an at 4p.m. we had 2 new peices of equipment oxygen and a Bi Pap. THe oxygen is to be used when he needs it and the bi pap is the be used when he is sleeping. What it is used for is sleep apena which of cource Finnian has. It also helps filter the carbon doixide out of the body which in turn helps us to take bigger breaths and pump more oxygen around in our system. But over all he is doing good he have to go back in 3mths of if he get sick we have to go back to see him.