I hope Spring is coming!
We had a little excitement today. Michael’s has had something going, he’s been different but I don’t really know what to say other than that. He’s at Christine’s this week and yesterday I went over to get him ready to take him to church with me and he had a bad headache, plus the back of his head was extremely sensitive. He said he felt fine other than that but I was, I am a little concerned .. he has a shunt in the back of his head that is there to drain excess cranial fluid –the shunt is a “just in case” thing, but if his body doesn’t absorb the cranial fast enough then it will create pressure on his brain, this is dangerous. If you heard anything about Natasha Richardson then you are aware that pressure on the brain is very dangerous. So, because of this I was concerned and planned on getting him in to see the doctor that put the shunt in. This morning, Christine said he woke up about 3 and was in obvious pain, said that his head hurt, she called his doctor who said to get him to the ER. So, we did. I always worry about these things. There have been a couple times he’s been admitted “just to check him out” and then he ends up getting sick or falls behind while in the hospital. Plus he just does not like being there.
Michael was not happy about being there today and was worried about being admitted, like I was. He was upset about this so much that he would not confirm that anything hurt, everything was fine. It seemed to me he was answering so he could leave. I talked to him – as I was talking to myself – we agreed to let it go and let God take care of both; the finding out if something is wrong and the fear of a hospital stay.
Well everything worked out, after blood tests, x-rays, CT scan, they said they didn’t see anything wrong and we were released. It does seem something is up, we’ll just have to keep a close eye on things from here. Thanks for checking and thanks for your prayers!
Kirk