Still trying to figure it all out......

Well Austin is somewhat better today, but still not himself. All he wants to do is sleep. I did get him to eat some baby food bananas this morning but only able to get him to sip on his drinks. We are still having to give him Tylenol as he has some kind of discomfort that we can not figure out. Grimley feels that if he sends him home today we will be right back in tomorrow with dehydration and I agree. He wants to do an MRI of his head tomorrow morning. You can get a better picture of the brain on an MRI. He is puzzled as to what is going on with Austin though he feels it is either the side effects from radiation or one of his medicines, cyclosporine, that can effect the brain. Both can go away with time. He has checked for viruses in the blood and the urine and they all come back negative. Dr. Grimley said it could be graft vs. host disease but with that you have diarrhea and he doesn't have that so he throws that one out. He did finally have a bowl movement last night and just had another one today. He hasn't been as cranky today as he has been the last few days and in fact he just got up and was talking to Nannie and I some. I asked him if he wanted his toys and he shook his head yes. He did this yesterday but it only last a few minutes and once again it didn't last long today. He is still up though watching Shrek but doesn't want any of his food or drink. I am going to try the baby food bananas again and see if he will eat that. I hate forcing things in him but with Austin if you do a couple of forceful bites he starts eating it. Then too he will be NPO tonight if they are going to do an MRI on him tomorrow so that doesn't help with the eating and drinking process. So hard right now on him. It doesn't help that he is turning two and going through the terrible two's and possibly could be teething. We will see how our night goes and how the MRI is tomorrow and go from there.

Elizabeth