Never a Dull Moment... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angels watching over us.... As my last entry said, life has been busy with all the projects on the homefront, but after Sunday morning that part of my life seemed like a breeze. Sunday morning started like no other - Steve was up and heading out to the dump (atleast this has been what our "normal" routine has been for the last month or so) by 8am and I was up getting ready to wash some clothes. It seems "my chores" always get done faster if I work on them when everyone else is asleep (maybe that's what I should be doing NOW?) or out of the house. When heading down to change a load of clothes out I noticed Taylor was awake, so I went in a put down her bedrail, it's something NEW we had to do last week because she became quite the escape artist and was up roaming the house at all hours freakin' everyone out. She smiled and I went back to my laundry. Maybe 5-10 minutes had past and when coming back up the steps I noticed her banging her head into the ladder of their bunk beds. Upon getting closer there was blood coming out of her mouth - my sweet girl was having a seizure. I immediately place my hand between her head and the ladder, SCREAMED for Courtney to bring me the phone and once the shaking stopped I placed her on my lap and called 911. I'm not sure I've ever been MORE scared in my life. I felt horrible for freakin the living hell out of Courtney, but no one else was home. Courtney was such a trooper - she unlocked the door and waited for the paramedics all while getting me the stuff I needed for Taylor. The 911 operator stayed on the phone with me until the parmedics arrived. I was able to call Steve and tell him to get home quickly and he arrived a few minutes after they did, of course he did 90 MPH with his flashers on to make it home in time. So within 10 minutes of them arriving Taylor started to come too and we were off to the hospital. I've never seen my girl so sleepy before. She was in and out for the next hour or so, then another one occured. It only lasted about 5-10 seconds. Mild compared to the first that lasted 90 seconds atleast. After this one Taylor was still alert. Another hour or so past and she was becoming more alert which was a positive signed. By the time the 2nd one past Steve had arrived with Courtney & Dylan. Not sure this was a good thing, but I knew Courtney didn't want to leave her sister's side. Dylan only remained for about 30 minutes and then my Dad came and got him. Courtney stayed with us. Steve was handling everything pretty well until he saw the 3rd seizure occur. It turned out to be the worst of them all, but luckily only lasted about 90 seconds. We were told that's considered short, but to any parent witnessing that happening to THEIR child it seems like it lasted a lifetime. Good thing is ALL the staff witnessed it too and were better able to tell the transferring hospital what was going on. Within a few hours Taylor was transferred to John Hopkins Hospital's Childrens Center were they were better equipped to treat her. To make this LONG story alittle shorter, they observed Taylor over night on Sunday night and ran tons of test. On Monday morning they ran an EEG and as long as everything was ok they would release her. We arrived home around 7pm. We opted (along with the doctor) to not give meds at this time since this could of been a one-time thing and we would have hated to have her take meds 3x a day for 2 years if it wasn't necessary. If there is another occurance meds will be automatically started. She goes back on the 18th for an MRI, so please everyone keep their fingers, toes and whatever else they want to cross that everything continues to well for my sweet girl. It was such a relief to see my girl return to her normal self yesterday morning. If you know Taylor, you know that she's always full of smiles and giggles and it was truly heartbreaking to see her lay there with no smiles in her and her body so limp. I'm just glad that we had tons of angels watching over us and that my sweet girl is back to herself. 2:13 am - 08/09/2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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