Friday, April 18, 2008

Friday April 18th Update

We safely made it to Johnson City yesterday. The ride wasn't too bad and the kids all did OK. It was a pretty long ride none the less and were glad to finally arrive. Everyone has been having a great time. Today me and Allison and Ashlyn, Katelin, and Madison all went to the Bristol Race track and took a tour. I was at the Spring race this year and thought the kids would find it interesting. The highlight of the tour was getting to take a couple of laps in the van we were in. They weren't very high speed laps but none the less they were laps at Bristol. After that we got to get out and walk around the track. The banking in the turns is so steep you can barely walk up it but the kids climbed up the banking and we got some good pictures. Upon leaving the track we noticed that the gate to get down to the track was still open and there was nobody there. I wanted to so badly go back down there as we were leaving for a couple of more laps. But then I saw the headlines in my head........
" A Florence Alabama man, along with his wife and 3 daughters, was arrested today for turning a few laps at Bristol Motor Speedway in a Ford Expedition...." Yeah we passed on the temptation.

Dawson's seizures are still on a little bit of an increase. I did call his Neuro and the nurse said to remain on the current dosage of Topamax and we will hold off on doing anything until we see what his EEG looks like this coming Monday. His seizures were on a decline and I hate going backwards. They are not as bad as they have been in the past but instead of his 1 to 2 clusters with 3-10 seizures per cluster he is back to having 4-5 clusters with anywhere from 5-30 seizures per clusters. We hope to figure out what has caused the increase. We also hope to see not only his seizures decline again but to go away all together. We will not stop until they do. Please continue to pray for healing in Dawson.

Jeff and Allison

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