God is good. The EEG revealed that Grace's hypsarrhythmia (the abnormal brainwave patterns indicative of Infantile Spasms) is gone! She still has some occasional electrical misfiring which are technically seizures in her brain, but she's not having physical seizures anymore and it appears she's getting on track with her development. Dr. Schub measures success based on these latter 2 signs, so in other words at this point she is not showing clinical signs of Infantile Spasms. The doctor also expects further improvement in her brainwaves and Grace will have another EEG in about 2 months. He also said that about 1/3 of the general population have some sort of brainwave abnormality, but since we don't hook up to an EEG just for fun, you never know it. (If they hooked me up to an EEG, it would probably be something like, "Um, Mr. LoVerde, we're not finding any brainwave activity..." But my wife could tell you that.)
Dr. Schub, who's Jewish, was surprised to see how well Grace is doing and we told him it was the healing power of Jesus and about all of you praying for Grace.
When Grace had the EEG on Wednesday, we asked the technician if she had an idea of how things were looking and she told us about the improvement, so we had a heads up. But it was great to get the official word today.
Thanks as always for your prayers.
Derek
That's SO incredibly exciting you guys. Wow, I'm amazed at the awesome power of our Redeemer and His beautiful work in little Grace. We'll keep her in our prayers as she continues healing, but what great news! Thanks for keeping us along on this journey.
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ReplyDeleteSo blessed to hear the good news. Improvements are coming thanks be to God. I said to Christal yesterday you both have a special grace upon your life and I thank God for it.
That's such exciting news! Praise the Lord!
ReplyDelete“Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life)...” Isaiah 58:8
ReplyDeleteGrateful.
ptl!
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