2007 - what a year...

To sum up 2007 -

• 5 ER visits
• April 2nd - hit her head on the tv stand and cut her face above her left eye resulting in 5 stitches
  
• October 20th - fell out of bed and cut her face above her right eye resulting in dermabond
  
• October 24th - started wheezing in the middle of the night and was diagnosed with a severe case of croup
  
• November 19th - fell down the basement steps resulting in a big knot on her forehead but luckily nothing else
  
• November 30th - sick and acting very strangely and showing symptoms of possible adverse drug reaction but turned out to be some kind of virus
  
• 1 minor surgery
• March 8th - ear tubes (yeah - no ear infections ever since and this is after being on 6 rounds of antibiotics in 3 months)
  
• Numerous trips to Chicago for her cranial molding helmet
• Between January through June - about 13 trips to Chicago (though we did enjoy getting to spend more time with Aunt Erica, Uncle Ricky and their cat Sylvester)
  
• Numerous EEGs (I have lost count but each one continues to look better than the last)
  
• 2 trips to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
• April 15th - admitted for a week to start the ketogenic diet
• July 17th - follow up visit
• Several medication changes
• January 18th - started clonazepam
  
• February 2nd - started clobazam
• February 2nd - stopped clonzaepam
• February 14th - stopped depakote
• April 15th - started ketogenic diet
  
• May 14th - stopped zonegran
  
• September 7th - started keppra
• September 22nd - stopped keppra
• September 27th - started weaning diet
  
• November 10th -started 2nd round of depakote
• Developmental progress
  
• January - pulled herself to a standing position
• January - started using pointer finger to push buttons
• February - started crawling from one room to another
  
• February - started walking with push toy
• February - started cruising around furniture
• April - took first steps without assistance
• April - started climbing steps
• May - took about 10 steps without falling
• August - started using pointer finger to communicate what she wants
• August - started babbling more
• October - started putting objects in a container
• November and December - so many it is hard to list everything...her development is at an all time high (I will post again soon with all the new things she is currently doing)
  
• Last but not least...
• 28 DAYS OF NO SEIZURES AND STILL COUNTING!!!

What a wonderful way to end 2007!!! Though, we almost ended up in the ER on New Year's Eve when Sophie tried to eat a glass ball ornament. Luckily, we caught her trying to do this before she had a chance to swallow anything. She had 2 pieces in her mouth which matched up perfectly to what was missing on the ornament. Sophie sure loves keeping up the drama. Happy New Year!!!