debvid

Hi Vicky and Kayakmom

Thanks so much for thinking of us. We are fine. We were very fortunate, Katrina turned at the end, so Baton Rouge didn't get it as bad as expected. We were without power for only about 11 hours. My mother was without power for 3 days, other family members a week. We had very little damage, a some shingles off. We have a lot of people from the New Orleans area in town and we will find out next week exactly what the public schools are going to do with the new kids. Best guess is they will go to night school in our schools. I wish they would open up some of the closed schools and let them go there. Night school is hard on kids, I just can't imagine elementary kids going to school till 9 at night! The Catholic schools already have their new kids in school. Traffic is a nightmare here. The few problems we have are nothing compared to what those from New Orleans are going through! My heart goes out to those, I can't imagine going through the horrow they have. I just learned that the Childrens Hospital in New Orleans did ok. They had everyone out before it hit and not much if any damage.

An update on Bonnie-
I think she has not had a seizure for about 4 months! I say I think because she doesn't tell me when she has one and I think sometimes she doesn't know. She has been telling me the past week that she has been getting headaches when she stands and gets dizzy before she tumbles. I don't know if the"dizzy" is just nerves or something else. I don't know if the headaches are from May when she tripped over the diving board, seizures or just a headache. I hope these aren't symptoms of small seizures. I am going to make an appointment with her neuro next week. I finally got her some insurance!!! We got the free state insurance. It won't pay for me to see her neuro at her office, we would have to go to the charity hospital to see her. I will just pay for her office visit at her reg office, at least her meds will be paid for.
We have her trileptal down to 75mg twice a day. We were hoping to have her off by the end of summer and just on lamictal, but with her head injury we delayed decreasing it. Now I am scared to lower it any more during school.
Yesterday the cheerleaders dropped her. She was doing a back tuck in the air and they didn't catch her ( guess that's why that stunt is illegal). She landed on her tailbone! I told her she did not need to go up in the air anymore if she doesn't have girls that will catch her and she definately does not need to do that stunt anymore. She could have been seriously injured.
So far so good with school, we were just in school a couple of weeks when Katrina hit. They were out for a week and just went back Tuesday.
She wants to take drivers ed now and get her driving permit! Really scary!
I told her we have to run it past her neuro. In the past she said she could write a note saying her type seizures would not interfere with driving, we'll see.

I read in another post about Katie and your son. So glad to hear they are doing so well. He has such a great opportunity as guarterback! I miss my son playing football and baseball, cherish these days. I assume Katie is still seizure free, Praise the Lord! I think about her often when something comes up about Bonnie's seizures.

Wow, I kind of rattled on. Thanks again for thinking of us. I haven't been on much lately, but I do check in periodically. I think about the friends I have made on the board here and continue to pray for everyone.

Debbie