Much Better!

Yesterday was a much better day! We started out the morning by getting Brenna's catheter out. Actually, it was coming out on it's own (ouch), so they took it out and we got her up out of bed for the first time and she was able to walk to the bathroom with help. Of course, it's kind of a huge ordeal with all the wires and attachments. Her poor little head probably feels like it weighs a ton!

She was also communicating much better. She would stay awake for longer periods of time and talk like normal. Thank the Lord! At one point she even gave Dr. Clarke a "peace out" sign when he left - which caused much laughter from the rest of us. Just seeing her sense of humor causes us to feel so much better about things.

She colored a little bit and then we worked on a hidden pictures book together. But she would fall asleep often. She woke up a little more yesterday evening and we watched half of the cartoon Robin Hood together. David and I are taking turns going to the Grizzlies House to get some rest, so it was my turn to stay in the hospital last night. She went to sleep at about 11:00, but then woke up whimpering around 3:00am. I'm not sure why, but she couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and read to her. It was supposed to help her sleep, but I think I was reading myself to sleep more than her. But after about an hour and a half, she drifted off, so I went back to my nice comfy cot and snoozed too.

This morning it was hard to motivate myself to move, but David brought in Starbucks and that helped tremendously!

Dr. Clarke came in this morning and asked her some questions. He was glad that she answered everything correctly and spoke clearly because he was seeing seizure activity on the monitor. He said he wonders if she's been having seizures at home that we don't even know about. (That's wonderful.) Anyway, he said her stomach pain seizures they've located pretty much coming from the hypo campus. The problem is that these other seizures are coming from a different area. So, when Dr. Boop gets back they have to discuss whether or not they're going to have to go into both areas to resect tissue or just the one area. I hate it that she's possibly been having more seizures all this time and we didn't even know it because the symptoms were so subtle. But I guess we just have to trust God to give the docs wisdom to know what to do about it.

This afternoon, they are going to map out the speech part of her brain. Clarke said it would just involve asking her lots of questions so it shouldn't be a big ordeal. I'm amazed at the technology here. Although the brain is still such a mystery, God has really allowed us to learn a lot about how it works. It makes me all the more amazed and in awe of Him and His creation!

Oh, her fever went down so that's good and as far as the fluid goes - they're still just observing her. Thanks for all the prayers!