Under The Weather

Carly's school started back up last week and her teacher and aides were happy to see her, but she was clearly not feeling that great. She was very tired and slept through most of the day, but she did share a few of her cute smiles with her aide Cece.  By the end of the week Carly needed to stay home, as she was feeling increasingly bad.

We tried a shunt adjustment going into the weekend to see if that was the problem, but that didn't do the trick.  Over the weekend Carly continued to feel sick and sleepy, and while the symptoms seem a bit like a faulty shunt it is not quite the same.  Caroline, the nurse practitioner for the neurosurgery team, said that it is not uncommon for patients to start to show a range symptoms due to inflammation from radiation around 3 months after gamma knife treatment. The symptoms vary greatly and depend on the areas of the brain that were adjacent to the radiation.  Carly is now 11 weeks out from her gamma knife treatment, so it is possible this is why she isn't feeling good.  We will see how she does over the next few days, and keep our fingers crossed that she starts feeling a lot better soon.  Thanks for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers.

Love, Brad