Miracle Morgan: In the hospital

Saturday, April 13, 2013

In the hospital

Morgan is in the hospital again. Today is the second day. We came in on Thursday night to the ER because she had 103 fever. She also had a bad cough. Neurosurgery told us they needed to see her to make sure it was not an infection being she was only 4 weeks post op. In th ER, they did an X-ray and checked her for pneumonia, which was negative. They then checked her for the flu. This came back positive. However, they said since it wasn't flu season, it could be false positive. Therefore, they were being very thorough and testing for other things. Yesterday, they found she had a urinary tract infection also. She has been on antibiotics for this. Her fever has been up and down, she has vomited a few times, and still has a bad cough. She is feeling a little better today. I will keep you posted. Thanks for the prayers! God is good. Although we are sad all this has happened, especially when she was progressing so much, we are thankful they have found the source and that it is treatable. We pray there will be no setbacks in her progress once she is over this sickness.

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AnonymousApril 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM
You guys have always been and will always be in my prayers. I pray for Morgan every day that she become a healthy and vibrant little girl that I know she can and will be. I love you guys with every beat of my heart and with every breath of air that I take. Love Lori
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Morgan's Story

Our daughter Morgan turned five in December. She was born healthy and developed normally, at first. She began having seizures at the age of two. Since then, her development has halted, even regressed. She now cannot talk. She walks, but is uncoordinated which causes her to fall multiple times a day. She rarely smiles or laughs, since she doesn't feel good.
She is an intelligent little girl that just seems to be trapped in her body right now. Doctors said that the seizures and the medicine were likely holding her back from progressing. She has been on seven to eight different seizure medicines and continues to have multiple seizures daily and nightly mostly during her sleep. The medicines were also affecting her negatively. Some of them made her hyper, some made her so lethargic she couldn't function, and some made her kind of crazy. We tried multiple treatments to try and help her such as diet, supplements, and therapy. We would see fluctuating results. All the while, she just wasn't developing or learning and continued to have daily frequent seizures.
She has undergone multiple testing and seen multiple doctors. Last year, after three days of being in the hospital with video monitoring of her seizures, she was just put on some more medication. At that time, we were told she was not a candidate for surgery as her seizures were coming from different parts of the brain.
In the last couple of months, Morgan's seizures had worsened so much, that we were having to give her the emergency treatments and even called EMS. It was no quality of life for her. We had to do something. We had been so against surgery before, but finally my husband and I had decided we were ok with it and were going to ask the doctors if it was an option now. Well, we didn't even have to ask them because when we got to the appointment, the doctors had looked over her MRI again. After studying her case with a panel of specialists, they had decided that she was now a candidate for surgery. They said they thought they could remove or disconnect most of the areas that were causing the problems.
We are praying and believing that the doctors will be able to get ALL of these problem causing areas. We are believing that ALL seizures will be gone and never return, and medication will no longer be needed. We pray for a speedy recovery with no initial temporary regression( which doctors said was possible). We also pray for total restoration and the ability for her brain to catch up and to learn and develop.

With God ALL things are possible

Thank you all so much for your prayers.
Jeananne, Billy, Will and Morgan Johnson