Happy

Byron is happy to be home.  He's playing his video games, even going on line with friends to chat while playing.  He is smiling and seems comfortable. He's a bit more listless than normal but not so much that he is sleeping all the time. 

Taking the multiple medicines is challenging for him.  The Keppra is 10ml in liquid form which tastes awful.  He is taking the liquid form as the Keppra pills are too big for him to swallow.  He is having trouble swelling the other 6 small pills.  He can get them down but it takes a really long time.  But if that is our only hiccup we'll take it!

Byron goes back to school on Tuesday.  The school has been very helpful and cooperative.  The school is structuring it so that Byron only needs to take two courses this semester to finish high school and his Associates Degree.  This is partly due to the fact that he worked really hard last semester.  And according to his doctor he did this while having seizures and hydrocephalus! Because of the light schedule this semester, he only needs to be in attendance a couple of hours a day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  He will graduate on time with a Certificate of Completion.  He will not receive a Regents Diploma as taking further Regents tests will be way too stressful for him.  Regents are three hour long standardized tests on different subjects. The colleges he is applying to all take the certifcate  diploma so it is no problem.