Riley came out of hospital last Thursday night (8th April) but remained very poorly over the weekend and wasn't the fun-loving little chap from before the seizure.
That said, he has been showing small signs of improvement day-by-day and is now much better than he was last week. His eyes are tracking as they used to and best of all, today he laughed for the first time since his illness.
Tomorrow he is going to the Advance Centre for some hypobaric oxygen treatment, so hopefully he'll see more signs of improvement after that.
The Oakwood pub gave us over £800 yesterday following some further fundraising activities and we'll pay this in tomorrow to go towards his stem cell treatment in Germany. Now he's getting a bit better, we can start making some plans for the initial consultation in Dusseldorf in the near future.
Thanks to everyone who has passed on their best wishes and for the support of everyone towards our target of 20,000 euros.
It's great to see the little fella smiling again!
Riley suffered a bad seizure on the morning of Saturday 26th March and was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
He has been very poorly ever since as he was unconscious for a week and is still not back to his usual self. There is a possibility that he may have suffered more damage to his brain during the seizure, but the only measure of this will be the coming weeks and months.
It seems that the seizure was caused by a combination of a very high temperature caused by a chest infection, coupled with dehydration due to the fact that he was suffering from the winter vomiting sickness and also had diarreah. This caused febrile convulsions, which any little kiddie could also suffer from, but the impact to Riley has been severe in this case as it brought on an attack of viral meningitis.
Over the last week he has been slowly improving but has had to contend with a lack of nutrition that has caused dramatic weight loss and it has also been difficult to keep him hydrated due to continued diarreah.
It now looks as though he will be back at home with Mum and Dad by the end of the week, barring any setbacks, so fingers crossed he makes a full recovery - COME ON RILEY!
