Making Progress

The tempo has picked up the last two days.  It appears the sleep deprivation, combined with all the medications finally being washed out of her system, caused a flurry of seizures on Sunday afternoon.  Julia had something like 4-5 seizures in the space of a couple of hours.  So they gave her some Valium to calm her brain down.  Julia was allowed to have a normal amount of sleep Sunday night, but she still had a seizure, so we have now had a substantial number of seizures recorded.  They started doing the "mapping" procedure today, which is where they use the electrodes to stimulate the brain.  We are not sure what data they have gotten from this, and they will repeat this procedure some more tomorrow.  But Julia (and Libby) will get to sleep again tonight.  Libby and Julia both had friends come by to visit in the last couple of days, so that has been fun.  If things continue as they have the last few days, it is possible Julia and Libby will come home at the end of this week.  We appreciate everyone's prayers as we plow through this phase of Julia's analysis.  Please especially pray for all of the doctors, that they can clearly determine the source of the seizures and be able to plan out the next stage of Julia's treatment.