She is now on Topamax in addition to her seizure medicine. I have to ask, what genius came up with the idea of giving a two-year-old three capsules a day (two in the morning and one in the evening)? Needless to say, she won’t swallow the capsules so we have to open them up and put the medicine on her food. She takes a dim view of this. Sigh.

The hope is that this will make the seizures stop for good. It was tough at first before she got up to the full dosage, because the seizures started up again, and VERY frequently too. But they seem to have settled down again, now that she’s at the full dosage. She does have seizures occasionally, but they don’t seem to faze her. And the frequency seems to be declining again.

This whole process has been such a roller coaster ride. But she’s so beautiful – and she’s learned a new thing this week: the “I’m SO happy to see Mama” dance! It is adorable – she hops up and down and dances and grins when she sees me! I love it!

I’ve been listening to this song since the morning.
Summer is here.
I am taking cool classes and those cool classes are hopefully gonna raise my GPA while they are also fun!
We managed to become room mates with my best friend.
I spend almost all of my free time at library, at the arts & social science floors and reading the books I could not read during the academic year.
and these are my reasons to feel joyful today.

Yesterday, July 6, for the first time, all hourly production and clerical employees must clock out for lunch. For myself it worked well as I can choose the time for my lunch (1/2) hour each day as my schedule allows. However, I do believe it a farse put on by the company.

Tomorrow I’m going to Ankara to get my Summer School Registration done, but I’m still undecided about which art-related class to take from Faculty of Fine Arts.

^{Today I’ve figured out that the History of Jazz instructor of METU is one of the most famous name of Jazz in Turkey! That would be lovely to take classes from him, but I wanna play classic guitar too. And Film Analysis instructor is another important person. Ohhh, I dunno and I need to decide asap!!!!}

Well, the neurologist said that her EEGs are improved to the point that she doesn’t need one every six weeks or so – in fact she doesn’t have one sceduled at all right now! Yay! The sleep portion is still not right, but … he thinks she’s made tremendous progress. The waking portion is almost completely normal! He did start her on a second medicine that he hopes will make the seizures stop altogether! THat is an unbelievable thought to me after all we’ve been through.

I swear I feel like I’ve been facing these problems for an eternity, but in reality, the seizures started at 9 months and she’s only barely 2. Amazing how long such a short period of time can feel.

Needless to say, we’re so extremely happy with the doctor’s report and his hopes for her.

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She was wound up almost all evening after I got home. All I know is that I was exhausted and she wasn’t. She ate supper really well. I fixed steak and she tore into it. She seemed to be preoccupied with biting suddenly. She kept grabbing my car keys ink pens and other small items within her reach and I put them up. She got mad and decided to bite my foot. To distract her I gave her a bath and she decided to chew on her wash cloth. Afterwards, she still acted hyper so I decided she needed to settle down and fixed her a bottle to calm her. It usually does the trick. However, not last night. For the first time, she bit the tip of the nipple off. That was that. I put her milk in a sippy cup. She didn’t want it. It was already after 9 PM and I put her in her crib. I texted Rachel what happened. She got home maybe an hour later. I went to bed. About 11:30 or so Paige woke up and was screaming. Rachel got her up and they stayed out in the livingroom until whenever. I woke up shortly after 3:30 AM and could hear Paige. She was definitely awake and jabbering. Rachel said “I haven’t had any sleep at all. Paige has been like this all night”. I brought Paige to the livingroom and made my coffee. Paige didn’t want to stay out there and kept going back to her mommy. Back and forth. Back and forth. I think she finally settled down to went to sleep about 20 minutes ago.

My final final is over and my summer holiday is offically started !!!!!

It has been a really really really tough, hard, challenging year for me, and you know what? I survived! And now I deserve a long good relaxing holiday that I’m about to have :)

^{This entry was written under the wrong goal, it must have been because of the exhaustedness :D}

First of all, I work with a bunch of crazies. Actually, that’s a good thing because I fit right in. Anyway, we have a coffemaker at work. It was donated by a former coworker who chose not to take it with her when she quit. It still works really good. Anyway, we are suppose to contribute. You know . . bring coffee, sugar, creamer, spoons. It is BYOC (Bring your own cup). For the most part, it works. We got one guy name Randy who we secretly refer to as the coffee bitch. He always set the coffee up before he leaves for the 3rd shift. He also will make another pot whenever it get low if someone else (like me) doesn’t beat him to it. There is only one coffee drinker now on nights and so there is generally some left in the mornings. I don’t usually like having a cup when I get to work because it has either been cooking all night or if she makes more, she doesn’t bother to discard the old grounds before adding new and I can tell.
So, we have several on days who drink coffee. We have myself, then there is Amanda who use to be on 3rd shift. She has been bringing either organic or raw sugar for the coffee and sometimes brings in healthy snacks. She is an enigma, however, with her weird cravings. If she cant find anything sweet to snack on, she’ll eat the instant hot cocoa mix powder straight from the canister. We do have a guy name Ricky on days who is a bit selfish when it comes to the coffee and such. He goes to first break earlier than the rest of us coffee drinkers and sometimes drains the pot. He has never started a new pot that I know of. He is happy to help himself to the condiments that other people bring but when we are low, he still has his own secret stash which he keeps in his file drawer. It isn’t that he doesn’t contribute, he just keeps tabs about who was the last person to bring in the sugar, etc. and thinks we should do it on a rotating basis. While that is nice, what about Brian who drinks his coffee black? and only one cup per day at that? Ricky not only never makes the coffee but even asked Amanda while she was on 3rd shift if she would make a fresh pot each morning before he got there. She thought ‘Sure. Count on it.’ Then we have Ruth who likes her coffee extra strong. She is Savadorian and will drink 2 cups in succession when she gets to work before she does anything else. I really perfer to make more coffee than let her. Last time she made some, she put 5 dippers in for 12 cups. I generally put in 2-3. I brought powdered creamer last and it got finished up yesterday and there is no sugar left at all. I bought both last night and will take some in this morning. I cant live a day without either or I cant drink the coffee.