Everyone that's been with Cara the last week all wonder why she is YAWNING so much...all day and she gets plenty of sleep.  Im gonna go on google and ask the purpose of yawning.  My mom made a comment that when one yawns they bring in more oxygen to the brain...maybe Cara needs more oxygen...I thought that was kind of a far fetched comment but worth exploring into ...so thats what I'm heading to while waiting for my oldest 16 yr old to be home by midnight !!!!!

Happy Labor Day to all of you,

CarasMOM

Hi CarasMom! :)

Sorry you are so worried about your baby but I totally understand you!!!! :'(
Louise had her surgery 2 years ago in dec and she had the EDA on both sides under the same anesteshia. I kept her out of school for almost 6 weeks as I am a very worried mother and I thought that she needed it. She was having the "cramps" in her hands as you describe them several weeks after the surgery . I just didn´t look at them as TIA´s but perhaps they were.
About the yawning I think your mother is absolutely right!! I think it has to do with the oxygen. Louise had to breathe extra oxygen from tubes and it really helped her. Made her feel better and the "Tias and cramps" stopped immediately until the next time they appeared and then she would breathe more extra oxygen and so on. As the weeks passed she needed the extra oxygen less frequently.
I know that in USA mm:ers go back to school/work only a couple of weeks after surgery but I figured since she felt so tired and ill several months before the surgery she could need the extra rest and time with me alone and it was good for both of us.
Good Luck for you and your family and especially to Cara. I will be thinking of you.

Take care

Annica

That's funny you should mention that. I was diagnosed 3 yrs ago with asthma.Mild no wheezing but when it acts up I yawn A LOT.I feel like I get a better "breath" when I yawn.I can get a deeper breath of air.Does she or has she had asthma.As I sadi I never have wheezing that you can hear. The humidity really bothers me.
Mary Grace

Thank you Annica and Mary Grace for your reponses...in regarding to YAWNING....I found a thread on this link:
http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum107/HTML/007432-4.html   Subject: Yawning cleans the brain!...by someone under the name "Old brain"...long thread and interesting.  Yawning affects the lymphatic circulation and affects cerebrospinal fluid circulation.  The cerebrospinal fluid system has lymphatic drainage.  In other words yawning accellerates the circulation and the lumphatic drainage of cerebrospinal fluid.  Yawning cleans the brain. Yawning activates the lymphatic system.   When we are wide awake and physically active, the sketetal muscles massage the lymph adequately but when we sleep the lymph stagnates.   So I have been keeping Cara calm and low keyed...fearing that if she was too active she would set off a TIA...but now I know when she yawns alot...she hasn't been that active...and yawning does what her brain needs done without being active.

Its making me yawn more  ;;D

Have a great day,

CarasMOM

Carol,

Great research and what an awesome link.  I will save that in my favorites.

Thanks

Wayne