Journal entry by Barbara Bradley — Sep 28, 2010

First of all, thank you everyone for all the prayers, support, and kind words. It makes the days easier.

Here’s the scoop…. Although my bags were packed, we are all back home tonight. We met with the pediatric neurosurgeon at Duke Children’s Hospital today. He is hopeful about a hemispherectomy in her condition but stressed we really have to make sure the seizure activity is only coming from the left side. Next steps are meeting the Chief of Neurology and get the testing phase started. The Chief will then be able to present her case to the entire team and reach a consensus.

I share our arrival to Duke Children’s Hospital. If you don’t already know, two of Katie’s favorite things are elevators and fish tanks. Well, walking in to the hospital we see glass elevators like they have at some hotels. If that wasn’t enough, the bottom of the elevator looks in to a huge fish tank! Oh my, we thought she’d lose her mind riding the elevator! We rode up and down about 10 minutes. She would laugh and laugh til I thought she was going to cry. I thought this was a good omen for this stage of our journey.