Wed. Dec. 22- Dr. appointment was not so good today. Some red flag with contrast MRI. Neurologist wants to see me back tomorrow morning. Also tomorrow I have to have a lumbar or whatever you call a spinal fluid test thing. So after the test I need to be lying flat the rest of the day/night. Will give more details later. Jonah is doing okay. He is 6 months old today!!!!!!! Please keep praying.
Kristi
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
update
Tuesday, December 21st: Today, my eyesight is not any better or any worse than the last couple of days. I can see my kids, around the house, my computer, and I can even see somewhat around the hospital. I cannot see everything at once though. It's like I have to zone or zoom in on one thing at a time. Everything is VERY bright. There is no way I could drive myself anywhere, but I am just so thankful that I can still see even if it is not very well. No Dr. visits today just a day to hang out with my family and hopefully get a Christmas tree! Tomorrow should be a pretty hard day for us so please keep us in your prayers.
Kristi
Kristi
Monday, December 20, 2010
Update on Kristi
Sunday, Dec.12 Kristi has a blur episode in her right eye after church, then again at night before bed
Monday, Dec. 13 Kristi has a right eye black out calls ambulance they come over to the house. Kristi makes appointment to get eyes checked out by her Physician. Having symptoms of eye pain, headache, and funny sensation in right arm the Dr. sends her in an ambulance to Methodist Hospital to get check out for possible stroke etc...
At the hospital they give her an MRI of the head. Praise the Lord everything looks good on the MRI as far as stroke or ms or anything. The ER Dr. finally lets us go at 10:30 pm or so with the diagnosis of Ocular migraine and gave her some a prescription to treat that.
Tuesday, Dec.14 Kristi decides to have an eye Dr. look at her eye. So she is seen by a Optometrist in Monticello.She thinks it could not be Ocular Migraine because of the pain in her eye when she looks around.
Wednesday, Dec.15 The general eye Dr calls and thinks Kristi needs to be seen by the Ophthalmologist, which is the eye surgeon. At this point the right eye is very blurry and still hurting when rotated.
Thursday Dec.16 Kristi has a comprehensive eye exam with the Ophthalmologist. He thinks Kristi might have a condition called Optic Neuritis. He's is not definite, but it was worth a shoot to treat her as if that is what she has. So treatment fro Optic Neuritis is three days in a row of 1000mg Steroids. At the time he was not sure that nursing was okay with the Steroids so Kristi eventually found out it is OKAY to nurse while on Steroids.
Friday Dec. 17 Kristi suffers from a bad headache and leg pains and a funny leg sensation on top of the right eye blurriness and pain with rotation.
Saturday, Dec 18 Kristi wakes up and thinks it is going into the left eye as well as the right eye and we really need to get the Steroids going. So, we call the on call Dr. at the Ophthalmologist clinic and he calls in the prescription to Methodist Hospital. We journeyed down to Methodist and find out that we have to go through the ER again and basically do everything again. Finally the ER Dr.(who was awesome by the way) tracked down the called in prescription and Kristi started the 1st dose of steroids. The on call Ophthalmologist from Saint Cloud wanted us to call him in the morning to see how Kristi was doing.
Sunday, Dec. 19 Both eyes still bad. They eye symptoms today are still eye pain and blurriness and everything being vry bright. Ex.- when she looks outside everything is bright white. Everything looks way brightened and colors are "washed out". Like a very over exposed picture.
After church we called the on call Dr. and he said that he would like to see Kristi right away because it had now gone into both eyes. So he opened up the eye clinic just for us and he did an exam on both eyes. We tried to have the 2nd does of the meds in St Cloud but that didn't work out so well so.... we made the long trek down to Saint Louis Park back to Methodist. At least this time we didn't need to go through the ER.
Monday, Dec.20 Kristi had a follow up appointment with a neurologist from the first Er visit when she had the MRI. That appointment went well except the Dr. wants her to have another MRI with dye. They still don't really know what is going on with Kristi. This Dr. is also having Kristi get a lot of blood work done.
I guess the big thing now is that the MRI with dye is scheduled for this Wednesday at 1:30pm. And with this MRI Kristi CANNOT nurse baby Jonah. Jonah has never taken a bottle and has mom has NO stored up milk and Jonah as never had formula. So, if you would like you could join us in praying that Jonah will be oay with a bottle for 24hours and then be fine going back to the breast after that.
We will try to keep you all updated on the latest news on Kristi's condition. Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of rest for our family. Them back for more Dr. visits on Wed. and Thursday.
Monday, Dec. 13 Kristi has a right eye black out calls ambulance they come over to the house. Kristi makes appointment to get eyes checked out by her Physician. Having symptoms of eye pain, headache, and funny sensation in right arm the Dr. sends her in an ambulance to Methodist Hospital to get check out for possible stroke etc...
At the hospital they give her an MRI of the head. Praise the Lord everything looks good on the MRI as far as stroke or ms or anything. The ER Dr. finally lets us go at 10:30 pm or so with the diagnosis of Ocular migraine and gave her some a prescription to treat that.
Tuesday, Dec.14 Kristi decides to have an eye Dr. look at her eye. So she is seen by a Optometrist in Monticello.She thinks it could not be Ocular Migraine because of the pain in her eye when she looks around.
Wednesday, Dec.15 The general eye Dr calls and thinks Kristi needs to be seen by the Ophthalmologist, which is the eye surgeon. At this point the right eye is very blurry and still hurting when rotated.
Thursday Dec.16 Kristi has a comprehensive eye exam with the Ophthalmologist. He thinks Kristi might have a condition called Optic Neuritis. He's is not definite, but it was worth a shoot to treat her as if that is what she has. So treatment fro Optic Neuritis is three days in a row of 1000mg Steroids. At the time he was not sure that nursing was okay with the Steroids so Kristi eventually found out it is OKAY to nurse while on Steroids.
Friday Dec. 17 Kristi suffers from a bad headache and leg pains and a funny leg sensation on top of the right eye blurriness and pain with rotation.
Saturday, Dec 18 Kristi wakes up and thinks it is going into the left eye as well as the right eye and we really need to get the Steroids going. So, we call the on call Dr. at the Ophthalmologist clinic and he calls in the prescription to Methodist Hospital. We journeyed down to Methodist and find out that we have to go through the ER again and basically do everything again. Finally the ER Dr.(who was awesome by the way) tracked down the called in prescription and Kristi started the 1st dose of steroids. The on call Ophthalmologist from Saint Cloud wanted us to call him in the morning to see how Kristi was doing.
Sunday, Dec. 19 Both eyes still bad. They eye symptoms today are still eye pain and blurriness and everything being vry bright. Ex.- when she looks outside everything is bright white. Everything looks way brightened and colors are "washed out". Like a very over exposed picture.
After church we called the on call Dr. and he said that he would like to see Kristi right away because it had now gone into both eyes. So he opened up the eye clinic just for us and he did an exam on both eyes. We tried to have the 2nd does of the meds in St Cloud but that didn't work out so well so.... we made the long trek down to Saint Louis Park back to Methodist. At least this time we didn't need to go through the ER.
Monday, Dec.20 Kristi had a follow up appointment with a neurologist from the first Er visit when she had the MRI. That appointment went well except the Dr. wants her to have another MRI with dye. They still don't really know what is going on with Kristi. This Dr. is also having Kristi get a lot of blood work done.
I guess the big thing now is that the MRI with dye is scheduled for this Wednesday at 1:30pm. And with this MRI Kristi CANNOT nurse baby Jonah. Jonah has never taken a bottle and has mom has NO stored up milk and Jonah as never had formula. So, if you would like you could join us in praying that Jonah will be oay with a bottle for 24hours and then be fine going back to the breast after that.
We will try to keep you all updated on the latest news on Kristi's condition. Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of rest for our family. Them back for more Dr. visits on Wed. and Thursday.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
apple orchard visit
Friday, November 19, 2010
First day of school pictures
I know the first day of school was over 2 months ago now, but I still wanted to post the 1st day of school pictures. A big part of why I have this Blog is so I can go back and reflect on pictures and memories of my family without going through the masses of pictures I have on my hard drive. Thanks for sharing them with me!
ON OCTOBER 2ND 2010.....
SHANE TURNED 9 YEARS OLD!!
Yep, Shane is now 9.
Here are some things Shane likes:
Cereal: Crunch Berries
Dinner: Tacos
Video game: Halo 3 & Halo Reach
Netflix shows: Ant and Arvarik, Jackie Chan cartoon, Sand Lot
Friends: Gavin, Trey,Tyler Walsh,Allen,Adam,Logan,Mathew,Mitchell
Restaurant: Buffalo Wild Wings
School Subject: Math
Games: Pokemon, chess, rubber band fights
Outdoor activity: Ripstick, pin pong, ladder, 5, chase game, night games(7 steps), trampoline
Kwik Trip w/ grandma: Mega Buddy
WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND ARE SO HAPPY THAT GOD LET US BE YOUR PARENTS!!
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