A death in the family

Some horrible person ran over my kitty "Watto" last night. My husband Chris found him when he was pulling out of the driveway to go to work this morning. He had been in the family since 1998 when he was only 3 weeks old. We nursed him and taught him how to use the litter box. He was my first baby. Watto loved to give people kisses and was a very loving cat, even to the kids. I can't believe anyone could run over an animal like that and then just leave them laying in the road. Some people in this world are just horrible.

Update on Hayden ...

Finally, fall break is over and Lindsey and Andrew went back to school today. I figured that today would be a good day because Hayden and I could rest and finally there was some peace and quiet around the house. Unfortunately there has not been peace and quiet because Hayden has been screaming most of the morning. Since Friday he has not been doing to well. He is having 100+ "head drop" seizures per day and they are wearing him out. While grocery shopping Friday night he could not even hold his head up. I had to try and hold him up while also putting groceries in the buggy. Saturday and Sunday he slept alot. While he was up he could not even stand up straight or walk without falling. This morning he woke up in a bad mood, screaming about every little thing, and continues to do this. It is his 2Nd Birthday today so this evening we will celebrate with cake and a present.

I am anxious to find out if Hayden is going to have surgery or not. We have gone through all of the pre-certification and are now waiting on the neurosurgeon's conference which will be held on Wednesday October 10Th. The surgery that we would be having is a corpus colostomy, which is a "split brain" surgery. They would cut the two hemispheres in half to basically disconnect them from each other. This would stop the seizures from spreading from one side of the brain to the other. Surgery is really scary, especially when it involves the brain but we have simply run out of options. We have been on 7 different medicines in the past 6 months. The only 3 that worked to actually slow down or stop our seizures we had severe allergic reactions to. The other 4 medicines we have tried, we are actually still on and at the highest dosages of most of them. Hayden is backwards in alot of ways, especially with his meds. When they increase the dose your seizures are supposed to decrease, but with us the seizures increase. Hopefully we will hear from the neuro very soon as I can't take much more of this. It's really hard to watch Hayden has numerous seizures everyday and not be able to do anything about it.