Seizure free…not quite yet!

Greetings all.  I would like to add an update to Peanut’s adventure.  This evening your normal publisher is out with our other daughters celebrating Elizabeth’s birthday today.  So I, a.k.a. Dad, will be moderator for this update.

Starting late Thursday evening as we settled down for bed we began to hear Peanut through the monitor.  She was beginning to breathe very heavy and making gurgling sounds.  This promptly got our attention and we immediately went in to check on her.  We observed she was having a seizure and we then placed her on the floor, used cool washcloths to cool her down, and took her temperature which was 101.5 degrees.  The seizure lasted 2 to 3 minutes.  Definitely not one of her more severe seizures, but it still got our attention.  After her seizure ended, we gave her ibuprofen and proceeded to the living room with her.  I held her as she laid there in a daze for about 20 minutes.  After that she sat up in my arms and gave us her sign for a drink.  Peanut then wanted to get down in the floor to crawl around and play with her toys.  She gave us a couple of chuckles because she wanted to stand up, but she was still disoriented and weak.  So instead she began to play peek-a-boo with us.  About 35 minutes later after she got down on the floor, we checked her body temperature again and it was about 100 degrees.  So now it is 2:00 a.m. and Mom decided to hold her on the couch as she fell asleep.  Laura then put her in her bed.  We safely made it through this seizure and went to bed ourselves.

At 2:45 a.m. Eva woke up crying and we went to check on her.  She had what we refer to as “body hiccups” when her body twitches every 15 seconds.  This lasted about 25 to 30 minutes and back to sleep she went.  A short time after that the alarm clock went off and it was time to go to work.  Peanut even got up and was very happy like nothing ever happened!  That is when Mom asked “do you think she remembers all this?”  My wonderful response to that was “I sure the hell do.”

At 9:45 a.m. Peanut had a follow-up doctor’s appointment with the family doctor reference her hospital stay last Saturday.  The Doctor stated that she did not know a cause for the seizure and that Eva looked good and healthy.  The Doctor stated that she did not have any further information because Eva did not have any symptoms of colds, etc. and for us to contact her neurologist again to see if they have any explanations.  Laura contacted him after arriving at home and the Neurologist decided to try Keppra which is for seizures.  Later that day when Laura went to pick up the prescription Granny got to experience her first seizure.  It was explained to Laura that the medicine will take two weeks to get into her system.

This completes Dad’s update.  Thanks to all family, friends, and work colleagues for their support.  This includes you too, Craig.