progress report

we've had some success in making progress today, although it was a pretty ambitious agenda. isaiah is off of the sedation drips, and that has been ok for the last 12 hours or so, although he had a couple of doses to get help him sleep through an EEG (checking on the electrical pathway activity in his brain). the results of that exam show some improvement since a week ago, and that level of progress is pleasing to the neurologists because it could indicate that he hasn't lost significant function after the events of last week. still a lot of time before things are clear on that front. we had him off the vent for an hour today- with mixed results- mostly favorable. we'll go back for more tomorrow. we tried to start giving him some pedialyte through his g-tube this afternoon, and that's where our luck ran out. he couldn't hold it down, and his belly is not awake enough to process anything, so we stopped. we'll try again tomorrow. isaiah is now fully loaded on an anti-seizure med, and we have started giving him scheduled doses of that. not sure how long he'll have to be on those- but we'll call it short-term for now.

so while not a home run, i think we've moved the ball a bit.