Monday 12/15/08 Medical Update

In no particular order - here are some random updates gleaned from doctors over the past week:

- One of Sue's colleagues suggested that she should have baseline hearing and vision test.

- Sue has been seen by Dr. Turon, a Neuro Opthamologist. Dr. Turon beleives that Sue suffers from two vision related conditions. 1) Simultanagnosia 2) Optompheris (did not get the correct spelling of this - do not know what this is). The doctor suspects that these conditions should improve over the next few weeks. We are supposed to make an outpatient appointment with Dr. Turon to follow up on these in about 1-month.

- Neither of the above conditions are related to the childhood Strabimus that Sue had. Sue is reporting double vision as she recovers. We beleive that this is because her brain has not yet learned how to supress the vision in one eye.

- The right eye lid is also a little droopy.

- The Parvovirus B19 lab results came back. The results are inconclusive to conclude that Sue had this virus in the past few weeks. The lab did not want to test because they felt the sample #2 was too old. They tested it anyway. The IGG of sample #2 was 5.84 vs sample #3 was 5.58. The IGM of sample #2 was 10.28 vs sample #3 was 5.56. It is suspected that the old sample may have been too old and thus the results are skewed and thus inconclusive.

- Sue has a slight fever today (@100 degrees). Otherwise feeling well and becoming more mobile.

- We have decided on the Spaulding Rehab Hospital. They have a Neurological Program and Tramatic Brain Injury program. Sue will be on the Neurological floor. We are tentatively scheduled to have Sue released from Neurology on Tuesday. This may be delayed due to another MRI or her fever.

- Sue just told me they are going to do a 4th MRI today.