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An Update and an Answer to Prayer for Baby Susie.

Melissa Beene Ford/ Susannah

It’s been six weeks since Susie had two seizures back to back.

After a trip in the ambulance to the ER after the first seizure where she had a CAT scan and a series of labs run, we followed up with her pediatrician and even more labs to test for metabolic or genetic disorders.

Praise the Lord, all of her labs came back perfectly normal. PERFECTLY, in the middle of the range on EVERYTHING, normal.

But Dr. Smith still wanted us to follow up with a pediatric neurologist, because as he described it, “everybody gets one seizure for free,” and since she’s had TWO, that could mean something. Our appointment was yesterday.

I was SO pleased that Dr. Baker checked Susie out so thoroughly, checked her reflexes and pincer grasp and eye dilation and asked us 172 questions about Susie’s skills and development, and reported to us that Susie appeared NORMAL. She’s sitting up well, she’s responsive and reactive in all possible ways, she says a couple of words [and bonus, knows some sign language]. Dr. Baker said that two seizures within 24 hours counts as one seizure, and agreed with Dr. Smith that one seizure is no cause for concern.

Susie’s only problem? The walker. 


Because Susie spends a lot of time roaming the house in her walker, she hasn’t developed the torso strength she needs nor the motivation to pull up and learn to walk, because heck, she can get ANYWHERE she wants to go quickly and easily; Dr. Baker used the words developmental delay. And the bad thing is that I knew this… It’s why my first two children never had a walker. But I forgot, and we bought this house with hard, rough brick floors back in May, and a walker seemed the thing to do.

“Donate that thing to the next garage sale,” Dr. Baker said. “Walkers are banned in Canada for that reason, AND because they’re DANGEROUS.”

I’ve already begun seeing the ‘dangerous’ side of the walker; I caught Susie trying to climb out of hers, hanging on to the frame of it by her toes, to try to reach something enticing on the coffee table. And with our brick floors, that’s a head injury waiting to happen. So I’d already decided the walker was on it’s way out, but I’m sad about it knowing how free and independent {and cute} baby Susie felt in it.

But not so cute that I’m willing to let her have developmental delays because of it.

The walker is going to the curb today.

Dr. Baker said we could have an MRI if we wanted to, for our own peace of mind, but she wasn’t concerned. I opted NOT to, because I know from the eight MRI’s Annie has had to have that it’s very grueling on little ones. AND, it’s been six weeks with NO more seizures, AND Susie has even had fever three times since then (teeth coming in).

I’m choosing to believe Susie is healed, and whatever caused those two seizures is cured, thanks to all the thousands of prayers that went up on her behalf.

So THANK YOU, all my praying friends and family.

Life is back to normal here, and we’re grateful! And I’m dusting off my copy of Glenn Doman’s book, and we’re about to start building some torso strength up in this house…

Susie’s stats, at eleven months and one week:
Weight: 15 pounds, 12 ounces (below 5th percentile)
Height: 28″ long (10-25th percentile)
Head size: 17.9″ (50-75th percentile)

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  1. Sarah Davis says

    October 2, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Thank you Jesus! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Gwen says

    October 2, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    *tears* THIS is my thankful praise for the day! Wonderful news! (((hugs))) to you, Mama, and to that sweet little Suzy!<br />

    Reply
  3. LKS says

    October 2, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    Susie needs some P90X.

    Reply
  4. ~Carla~ says

    October 3, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    Oh SOOO thankful for this report! I&#39;ve been waiting to hear! She&#39;s such a lil ray of sunshine! What a doll! ~Carla~

    Reply
  5. ~Carla~ says

    October 3, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    Oh SOOO thankful for this report! I&#39;ve been waiting to hear! She&#39;s such a lil ray of sunshine! What a doll! ~Carla~

    Reply
  6. forevershanda says

    October 7, 2013 at 5:05 pm

    I&#39;ve been so anxious for you guys while awaiting news from the neuro!! What awesome, awesome news!! Prayers answered and glory be!

    Reply

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