Dr. Visit Today

This morning we had our visit with Dr. Manwaring. He is Luke's neurosurgeon. The visit started off strange. His office had called Mike last week and told us not to schedule an MRA to check on the suspected aneurysm. Anyway, to make a long story short, Dr. Manwaring knew nothing about this until we mentioned it to him. So we (nor him) has any idea why we got that call. After looking at Luke's MRI, he ordered an MRA to be done this week (still not sure what day.) Please pray for positive results from that. Other than that, Dr. Manwaring said he was very encouraged by the progress we are seeing with Luke. He went over the MRI and showed us some of the damaged areas, but was way more positive than the visit we had with the neurologist last week. He says there is still some damage showing to the right thalamus area, which is why we are seeing little movement on the left side. He is going to lower the setting on Luke's shunt when they do the MRA, and said hopefully we will see some improvement after that. We didn't get to ask him a lot of questions, he had 2 emergency phone calls while we were there, so the visit was very rushed. He will see us again after the MRA is done to go over the results of that.

On another note, Luke's new trick of the week is he will now wave to people! Slowly but steadily he is coming around...Praise God for everything he is doing both in and thru our son! We are so very blessed! Believe!