Grateful For The Support

First, I want to thank everyone that has supported the Team Carly brain tumor walk team. We have raised close to $7,000 this year and over $30,000 over the last few years between east coast and west coast walking teams. That is truly inspirational. If you are planning to join the team as a walker and haven’t gotten to it yet, today is the last day for online walk registrations. You can still register at the walk itself, and donations to Team Carly can be made online up to the walk day next weekend (and even a few days after.)

Carly had a tough few days last week. She woke up uncomfortable several mornings, and on Thursday afternoon she was so uncomfortable that she couldn’t stop crying for several hours. After a sleepless night when she continued to be uncomfortable and inconsolable, we packed our hospital suitcase and headed up for what we thought would be several days in the hospital. Hoping to avoid that if at all possible we got in touch with Caroline, the nurse practitioner for neurosurgery, to see if we could investigate in the clinic rather than the ER. As she has many times before, Caroline came to the rescue again and helped right away with a shunt tap to eliminate a shunt infection as the problem. These initial results looked good, so the next thing we needed to investigate was a lung infection. Dr. Uba, Carly’s pediatrician was quick to order a chest x-ray and after only an hour of waiting at home he phoned to let us know that she had pneumonia and that she should start a course of antibiotics. She is doing significantly better now, although still tired. I am just amazed at her improvement and that we were able to avoid another admission to the hospital. We are very thankful for Caroline, Dr. Uba, our close proximity to UCSF and as always Team Carly!

Love, Brad