Pierced Ears

This girl has had a rough few weeks. Seizures suck. Meds suck. Side affects suck.

Her attitude has proved better than mine many times and although it isn't what I wanted, it was certainly what she wanted.



I'll come around.



How could I not with a face like this :)



The short story is this...

Izzy's original meds don't seem to be working. We have seen an increase in both the number of seizures as well as the length of the seizures. In fact, longer seizures have caused her to wet her pants, and I fear the day a kid at school makes fun of her. The doctor had wanted to stick out the meds another couple weeks, but once I plead my case he agreed we should change meds over the Thanksgiving holiday. Not knowing what the side affects would do to Izzy I wanted her in my site as much as possible.

Well, the old meds are a liquid that she takes without too much of a battle...in return I pay her $1 a week :)

The new meds are a capsule that I break open and mix the little beads into something for her to swallow. Unfortunately she has to slowly wean off the first meds while increasing the dosage of the second med all at the same time. She gagged, cried, stomped and hissy fitted the first two doses of the new meds. Well on the third dose I told her she didn't have to take it in hopes she would see my disappointment and begrudgingly agree to take it. No such luck.

Next I moved onto bribing her. I knew she wanted her ears pierced and while I didn't want them pierced I felt if I could get the meds in her without a battle it would be a small price to pay. Izzy agreed to take her meds as long as she could get her ears pierced.

Off to Claire's we went...


At one point I thought she might change her mind, but she didn't. The tears didn't last long and so far she has kept up her end of the bargain with taking BOTH medications twice a day. ...I think it helps that we found the winning combination for those pesky little balls in the capsule...FROSTING :) Much like her mama, girlfriend loves frosting. Go ahead and judge (I know none of you will even care too much) but if she happily takes her medications prior to school and bed in a scoop of frosting then so be it.