Bless Ricki's heart. I am always amazed at what a trooper she is! Besides the hot flashes she continues to have she began having more frequent seizures. At first I thought they were just more of the non-epileptic seizures but as I started watching her more closely some of them looked more like an epileptic seizure. About a week ago she started having some seizures that looked quite different from the others. She would pass out on the floor but then she would start laughing. It's crazy but every time I still think she is really just laughing and then after a minute you realize she isn't laughing on purpose and is totally unaware of what is going on. She is drooling and doesn't respond to anything. Our neurologist agreed to try her on a seizure medicine and also to get the lab work done that Dr. Blakely had suggested. It is a pituitary/hypothalamus work up. It was interesting as I was researching the laughing seizures one of the causes could be from a tumor by your pituitary gland.
Ricki went in today for the lab work. It will be interesting to see the results. I am hoping we can find some answers for Ricki. When she went in to get the lab work done the person drawing her blood had a tough time finding her veins. She was such a sport when he was digging around in her arm with the needle he asked her if it hurt and she said "no" as soon as we were out the door she started complaining how much it hurt! When I ask her why she had told him no she said it was because if she had told him it hurt he would have been even more nervous and it would have taken even longer. Her wisdom amazes me:)
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