Jonah has been doing FANTASTIC during the day! The steroids have really helped keep the daytime seizures at bay. Unfortunately, each early morning Jonah will have 1-2 tonic clonic (grand mal) seizures that last at least 10 minutes. :( I am praying those will not continue as I wouldn't want to have to start, Onfi, a new and stronger medication for that since he's having such good days. The night seizures are the biggest risk for SUDEP(sudden unexplained death in epilepsy) which is a real risk for someone like Jonah. 

We are back in the hospital with Jonah. He has been having a lot of non convulsive status elipepticus which are basically very long seizures. 

His doctor pulled him off the MMJ study as it was not helping and probably making things worse. After pulling him off we all found out he was indeed on the real drug not the placebo. I was really hoping that the MMJ was going to be his magic bullet. Now we are back to more drugs. 

So far he is 2 days into a 5 day round of IV steroids and a new medication called Banzel. So far, neither seem to be helping. Basically, we will keep giving him new medications each one getting a little stronger or with more possible side effects until we find one that works. 

77 recorded seizures today. Bummer.

:(

We went on our annual visit to the zoo yesterday! We left the older boys home as they are getting a little too old for the zoo, I guess. We had a great time!! Ethan especially loved seeing all of the animals. 

We were able to escape our daily routine for a few nights over Labor Day weekend. We journeyed up to Breezy Point. 

Despite Jonah's seizures, I think we all had a really good time. Between the beach, pool, kiddie pool, waterpark, and  jacuzzi we went swimming ALOT!  

Here's a couple photos of our stay:

I didn't really get a ton of photos. I was trying limit my screening. :)

I think there's one thing harder than seeing Jonah have seizures every day is watching him have virtually no seizures for 2 days then have seizures creep back in to the point where they are all the time again. 

Monday and Tuesday were amazing days for Jonah. He woke up Monday with no seizures. He wasn't in a fog, he would look around and not stare, he could go on car rides and not and have seizures, no drooling, no falling, no raising his his hands involuntary to name a few. Then, Wednesday came and the seizures started creeping back. Now today, Thursday, he is back to his baseline which is in and out all day. I just don't get why he can have a couple good days like that out of the blue. Their are so many things it could have been. Was it way more activity and less calories?  Maybe delayed response to last weeks IVIG? High ketones? Low ketones? Less sneaking? CBD kicking in? God giving us a glimpse of our Jonah? Who knows. 

This is a pic from one of those good days!

Jonah is stil having loads of seizures everyday. Today he actually had a pretty good day but otherwise if you count every myoclonic seizure he has close to 100 of which maybe 20 are actually counted as bigger or longer ones. 

We had to miss out on our church family camp, Camp L!ve, this year. This is the first year since they started it that we weren't part of it. We showed up Monday night but Jonah was having so many seizures we had to go. We always look forward to camp so that was kind of a bummer. Here's a link to one of the first if not the first Quarry family camp, http://kittelson-burke6.blogspot.com/2009/08/camp-qfm.html?m=1 and http://kittelson-burke6.blogspot.com/2010/08/camp-qfm-2010.html?m=1. 

Our family had a great extended weekend with dad. He was able to take off a half day on Thursday and the entire day on Friday. Friday we ended up going down to the Waterpark of America. I think everyone had a great time! At one point I had to give Jonah his rescue meds because he wasn't coming out of an absent seizure. Afterwards we headed to the Raddison Blu for dinner as we thought we had a gift card only to find out after that the gift card wouldn't work at that location. 

I think we are close to having our old house rented starting in September. We have narrowed it down to 2 parties. Woo Hoo after August no more double mortgage payments. 

Oh yeah and we sold Bruce today. :( We will greatly miss you. 

Camp the first night before we had to leave.