Seizures SUCK

Yea, sorry for that title....but me and seizures have this hate/hate relationship. I said it before when it happened the first time and I'll say it again...there is nothing more scary than watching your child have a seizure. OK, maybe I should word it this way - I have never experienced anything worse than watching my child having a seizure!! Seriously, nothing worse!

If you haven't notice, I seem to compare things a lot. And it's funny how many similarities there are from the first time around. The last time, I had taken Kylie to the ER the night before (really the same morning, since it was the middle of the night) and they 'dismissed' us, saying nothing was wrong. At noon that same day, I called 911 as Ky started seizing in her high chair. After being admitted, they inform us that she had pneumonia, a double ear infection and a bacteria in her bloodstream (this is just hours after we left the ER). Well, this Tuesday at 1 PM I took myself and Ky to the doctor and the doctor DID NOT even see us. We waited there for an hour and a half and we left with some prescriptions without a doctor laying eyes on us (I was not a happy Mama about that!). We got home and Kylie and I both went to take a nap (I was having problems breathing, but I was more worried about Ky). About 3:50, Ky started crying out in her sleep, so I reached over to pat her on the back and she was literally ON FIRE. Seriously....HOT to the touch. I called Robbie in and asked him to bring me some Tylenol and by the time he came back I saw that look in her eye - the same look she had the first time.

I gave her the Tylenol and asked Husband to go pick up her prescription (ya know...the one that the doctor wrote WITHOUT seeing her!!), anyhoo....before he left, I said, 'This is the same way she looked the last time she had a seizure'. Note to self - ALWAYS go with your gut feeling!!

It wasn't four minutes later that she started having a seizure and her eyes started rolling back. I tried to rip her clothes off to cool her off some and it was like fighting a 10-year-old. I cannot tell you how strong she was. It was too late. She was already gone.

I ran into the living room and layed her flat and called 911 as she t-t'd all over me. Of course, in the moment it seems like it takes FOR*EV*ER for the ambulance to get here, but looking back, I'm thinking they arrived pretty fast.

And even though I have been through this before, I wasn't any calmer. I was just about as freaked out as the first time! The worst part is when she starts to stop breathing. Her breaths got more and more spaced apart as she turned bluer by the second - that is by far the hardest part to watch. The ambulance arrived and they confirmed another febrile seizure after they took her temp and it was still in the 100's somewhere (I was a mess at that point).

They say having a seizure is like running a couple of marathons for us...so you can imagine she was wiped out. After she stopped, she didn't even know any of us. She would reach for a fireman and miss and then reach for me and then miss...it's like she couldn't see straight. The paramedics stuck around for a while and after talking with them, we decided to take her to the ER ourselves just to be sure. I knew I could probably handle it at home, but after witnessing my baby having a seizure, I was all about being too cautious!!

They tested her for the flu, strep throat and pneumonia and everything came back negative. All they could say is that some nasty virus had caused all of this.

It wasn't until after Kylie was coming out of her daze that I realized I was having an incredibly hard time breathing. Having asthma my entire life, I realized that not enough oxygen was getting to my brain because I was starting to have a terrible headache. I hated to stay at the hospital any longer, but I had no choice....it was that, or go home and end up back at the ER later. So I was checked in too. They gave me a breathing treatment, a HONKING steroid shot, and 4 OTHER medications and we were finally sent home. We had just enough drama to close out the year 2009!

Kylie continued to run fever the next day, so I had to alternate Tylenol and Motrin around the clock....but you would NEVER guess she had a seizure two days ago. It's amazing how fast kids bounce back. I, on the other hand, have taken a little longer. It's been quite the month of sickness in the Anderson house!

THANK YOU so much for standing up in prayer for us...it was a very scary day and prayer was the only thing getting me through! We are praying that we ring in 2010 as a very healthy family of 5 + one (Sterling)!!