Yesterday we started off the day in the PICU. Emmalin had a pretty good night and had very minimal swelling in her face by the time she woke up. She had to do another sedated MRI at 8:30am and then we returned to the PICU. When she got back, Emmalin's right eye had began to swell. We had been told that this could have been one of the side effects from the surgery. It was nothing that was "serious" but that if it happened, her eye would probably swell completely shut for most of a day before it started to get better. So just as we had been told, as the day progressed, Emmalin's swelling in her eye continued to get worse.
Later that day we got the results from the MRI confirming that they were able to cut through the entire thing (for her corpus callosotomy surgery) and that she showed NO signs of stroke :)
We were moved from the PICU to the 12th floor around 7:00pm, got settled in and went to bed.
Seizure wise, Emmalin did have a couple of seizures. We do feel that they were VERY minimal compared to before her surgery. Emmalin's neurosurgeon had said that her seizures may continue to decrease over the next month, but nothing is guaranteed.
Emmalin had an amazing night last night, but by this morning, Emmalin's eye was indeed swollen shut. Today was the day that we got to add back in all her eating and start moving her out of her bed a little. She has had several seizures today (still smaller than before). As of this moment, she seems to not be feeling the best and she has started running a little bit of a temperature again :( On a positive note, her swelling in her eye does seem to be starting to go down a little bit :)
So looking at the "over all picture" of Emmalin's recovery, Emmalin is still doing incredibly well! She continues to blow us away by how tough and resilient she is!!
God Is Good
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