A Panda Named Spud

 I was given a stuffed panda which I named Spud when I was in the hospital.

I nearly squeezed his guts out after surgery because of pain.....yesterday I realized his arm was hanging by a thread.

Poor Spud ...he smells of some strange chemical like surgery smell... ether ???

He helped me out a great deal and nearly lost his arm in the process.

Daddy said whoa he looks rough! 

Poor Spud....but he is mended now.

Yesterday I had a doctors appointment , I will resume IVIG Monday.... The doctor remains cautiously optimistic.

There was also the discussion of brain surgery and VNS.

I said VNS would be o.k. but NO to removing part of my brain .

But....he upped the onfi and we will see how  I do until next month.

So that is that.

We will see how things go.

EMG Results And A Diagnosis

  So today I had an EMG done.....was not painful at all they did not use needles some sort of conductor thing and metal probe things. ( Well not painful for me.)

 So my left side is pretty bad , the nerve conductors are like blocked or something.

I sort of figured that.

Anyway I now am diagnosed with CIDP  Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.

It is an autoimmune disorder, my body has decided to attack itself ...to attack the myelin sheathes around my nerve fibers.

The destruction or demyelination of the nerve leads to an impaired ability of the nerves to communicate and function.

That is all I am going to say about that right now.  It is bad.

Also the EEG I recently had showed a seizure from the left temporal lobe.

The Dystonia is due to the CIPD.

Now I am hopefully going to be getting IVIG...to stop the progression.

We don't know how much or if it is actually going to make me better but if it keeps me the same that is better than worse...I have nothing to loose.


Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.