Welcome to our site about our son Brodie Dick who will join our family on August 8, 2011 at 8:00. At 22 weeks we went in to find out if we were having a boy or a girl and we found out that we were having a boy but that he may have a birth defect. After an agonizing week we found out that our son had CDH (Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia). CDH occurs when the diaphragm fails to fully form, allowing the abdominal organs into the chest cavity and preventing lung growth. CDH occurs in 1 of every 2500 births and a baby with CDH is born every 10 minutes. 50% of babies diagnosed with CDH do not survive. The cause is not known. This will be a journal of our journey and will allow our family and friends to keep up to date on what is happening with us and our son Brodie. Thanks for your prayers and support!


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Head Ultrasound Negative

They finally did a head ultrasound this afternoon and it was negative.  He is still having the seizures and they have decided that they will put him on the EEG machine for 24 hours so that they can monitor his activity and see what happens in his brain during the seizures.  He had 10 siezures in the hour that they did the first EEG.  They were going to do an MRI tomorrow but decided that they will have to wait until he gets off of the Nitric machine.  This means they will not be able to do the MRI until next week.  I know things can change rapidly during this process and we hope it can get done sooner because it is hard not knowing what is wrong with him.  Anytime you hear brain and neurological issues it makes your heart drop.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a good day but it is going to be difficult until they can give us more answers.  He did get his head dressing off and we were able to see his hair and he was starting to look more normal (until he got on the EEG machine).  Thanks for all of the nice messages and kind words.  Yesterday felt too good to be true and it was but we will get over this hump and start moving in the right direction again.

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