He's home!
Luckily Dad only had to spend one night in the hospital, we got to take him home the next day. What a relief! Everything pointed to seizures, which is an easy fix. The EEG showed some activity that was consistent with that and everything else was negative, except that his TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) was 5.6. This just means that he needs to increase his thyroid medication, Synthroid. So we put his Keppra (seizure medication) back at 1000mg, which is where it was from December to August. We had only recently decreased it to 500mg.
The first day home was a readjustment and he still had some tremors, we were waiting for the medication to kick in and for his system to basically "reboot". The brain is a complicated thing.
He's great now though! Completely back to normal and doing wonderful. He will have an outpatient 24-48 hour ambulatory EEG at some point, which basically means he just has to wear electrodes on his head for a day or two at home for a more in-depth study of the electrical activity of his brain. Honestly I don't know if it will be all that useful. We already know he had some seizures and now he's taking medication to control that. We'll see.
Tomorrow we're all going out to dinner to celebrate Uncle Scott & Marty's birthdays and Dad plans to hit the gym again Monday. I know he's looking forward to getting back to his routine again.
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