Tweaking the med and the tablet

After last week's wonderfully low Valproic Acid blood level, C.'s pediatric neurologist gave us the OK to raise C.'s dosage. She now gets 500 mg. twice a day.

I am hoping against hope that this will yield results. While her number of seizures has remained at about three per day, some of them appeared more intense than previously.

We're still plugging away at the Tablet.

I no longer prod her to press it with her index finger even though that is the finger that she uses frequently to sign "more" or "yes". The occupational therapist (= tech expert) (see my earlier post) at her school recommended that I let her press with whatever suits her, e.g. even her knuckles.

Heeding her advice, I find that C. tends to favor pressing with her thumb. Here she is thumbing away.

My daughter at her Tablet