Headed in the Right Direction

We had an appointment today with the pediatrician where we discussed the great progress our daughter has made since her steroid injections two weeks ago. The swelling in her left eye, cheek and back of her neck are drastically reduced. She is using her eye more and more. She doesn't like the eye patching, but it getting more and more used to the idea.

Today the pediatrician and I talked a lot about medications. We decided to go ahead and give our daughter three of the four inoculations that a typical 2-month old baby would receive. The only shot she didn't receive is the live rotavirus vaccine that could be potentially harmful to to her compromised immune system. But, this weekend we will decrease her steroid again and increase the Propranalol to almost double our current dosage. All of the doctors have great hopes that our daughter will be completely off the oral steroid in the next couple of weeks. Coming off the steroid is key in enabling our daughter to be around other children.

I had to sit down tonight and write an email to my coworkers telling them officially that I'm not coming back to work on Monday as we originally planned. Our daughter simply isn't yet healthy enough to be around other children in a daycare-type setting. If her health continues to improve at our current rate of progress, she may be healthy enough to be around other children towards the end of April.

We are encouraged by today's appointment. Currently our daughter's blood pressure is good and we need it to remain strong as we make these adjustments with her medication. She was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection today and we need this to clear up. Please join in in praying that our daughter's health will continue heading in the right direction.