Tuesday late afternoon:

Well.........somethings seem to be better and somethings not so much. Charlie had another cat scan around 5:00 because the neurologist and his clan came and identified more posturing that was concerning. The EEG leads were removed and a head scrubbing (of all the glue that held the leads in place) caused the poor child a fair amount of distress as any movement of his head and neck is horribly painful. Since all the EEG stuff has been removed, the swelling of the kids face seems to have gone down a bit. A feeding tube has been inserted and the nurse was getting ready to serve a delicious dinner of pedisure. Charlie Cooper was just learning the crawling skill and Grandma Cheryl loves to rub his calloused little knees. She is so glad that the EEG equipment is gone.......she cannot keep her hands off his forehead.

Britton had a visit to the waiting room and he was pretty glad to see his mom, dad, and grandma's. I think they were pretty excited to see him as well.

THANK YOU-THANK YOU-THANK YOU for all the fasting, prayers, phone calls, and posts. We cannot believe the wonderful support that has been shown........talk about overwhelming! The Infectious Disease MD (the one that said that the bacteria that colonized on Charlie's gram stain was worse than any he had seen in his entire career) said that this afternoon he is 'cautiously optimistic' about the resolution of the infection. We know that Charlie is being blessed and watched over.