Thursday, May 5th, We Have Our Ewen Back

4ml Prozac (16 weeks today), 1/8 Clonidine, probiotics, antibiotics (Zithromax) day 10.

Today I saw our old Ewen again. He was happy and silly and energetic. He barely huffed all day and he fell asleep calmly with no huffing. When the cat was making dough on his bed he said, is that her tic? I laughed and said, yes.

I can't even describe properly how amazing this recovery is. He wasn't trying to constantly distract himself with video games today. He could hang out and talk and laugh and relax. It was amazing. I am so scared to write this incase it all changes back again tomorrow. But today, at least, he was like the old Ewen again.

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The Chair of the Pediatric ER Wrote Back!!!!!

Ms. ....... Thank you very much for bringing your son’s case and experience to our attention. First of all, I hope that Owen is still doing much better. I absolutely understand how devastating this could be in terms of a missed opportunity to appropriately diagnose. I have to say that in reading your email and updating my knowledge about the condition, I could see how it may be quite difficult to make a diagnosis accurately in an Emergency Department setting and I could see why things occurred in the manner in which they did. That said, I am very sorry that we let you and your family and your son down in this way. Our Pediatric Emergency Department are staffed by a group of very expert pediatric emergency medicine specialists trained in some of our nation’s leading teaching institutions who I was able to recruit here to ........... to take care of our community. I know that the fact that we were not able to expeditiously diagnose your son’s condition caused a great deal o...

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