Phil,
Praise the Lord!  It's too bad that there has to be any problem at 
all, but at least this one is treatable and, hopefully, not 
permenant.  I really love Wendy's outlook, by the way.  I'm not sure 
I'd be so brave.  What a testimony of God's strength in the midst of 
a tough situatio n.
Kathy


At 01:13 PM 5/24/2006, you wrote:
>I am sorry.  I forgot to cut all the header information out.  So in case you
>gave up reading, as I normally do, before finding the body of the message,
>here it is.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave & Wendy Adamson" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:15 AM
>Subject: Amber's Diagnosis
>
>
>     On Tuesday, May 23rd, Amber went to the Pediatric Neurologist at
>Children's hospital.  The nurse was surprised that Amber got an appointment
>with the doctor because her schedule is so full.  She said that it is very
>difficult for new patients to get an appointment with the doctor.  PTL, the
>Lord got us through.  Apparently, there are only three Pediatric
>Neurologists in Colorado and Amber's appointment was with one of the three.
>     The doctor said that Amber has Rolandic Epilepsy.  She had all of
>Amber's MRI, EEG and blood results from Almaty and concluded that she has
>Children's Epilepsy.  This is good, because it can be treated with
>medication, Carbatrol, and the hope is that she will grow out of the
>epilepsy in a couple years.  If you wish to learn more, you can find it
>on-line at www.epilepsy.org and
>http://www.epilepsy.org/Visitors/Centre/Brochuresforchapters.cfm.
>
>Prayer:
>1. Wisdom about the medication; to put Amber on Carbatrol or not.
>2. If we do, pray that the medicine is adjusted correctly and in the time
>frame of their return plane tickets.
>3. If she takes Carbatrol, pray that we could get the medication in
>Kazakstan.
>
>Praise:
>1. Amber got to see an exellent pediatric neurologist.
>
>Here is a summary of Wendy's messages:
>
>"They agree with the Norwegian doctor that the cyst is nothing to worry
>about.  They recommend we do a follow up MRT in a year.  The quality of the
>MRT in Kazakstan was fine and they can get it via email and can review it
>then.  They said these kind of cysts are very common and more often than not
>stay the same size.
>   Their initial thoughts were that she's having Simple and/or Complex
>Partial seizures.  They also think it's Benign Rolandic Epilepsy.
>WWW.epilepsy.org and www.epilepsyfoundation.org had info on this and on the
>medicine she is recommending called Carbatrol.  Nearly all kids with this
>will grow out of it.  We can get the blood levels check in 3 months and
>again in 6 months in Kazakstan."
>
>   "The doctor called and said the EEG shows it is indeed Rolandic
>Epilepsy...If we start the meds on Thrusday then Amber will have a blood
>test on June 7th...If all the levels are fine we are set to go.  If we need
>to adjust it again there's a slight possibility we'll need a bit more time
>( few more days) to  check her blood again...She seemed to think 200mgs
>would be enough.  It's only if we would need to go up to 300mgs that we'd
>run into a time crunch with the departure date (our purchased round trip
>airline tickets are limited to one month)."
>
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