(May 20-26, 2013) Seizure

May 20-26, 2013

On Monday Leila took two naps in her crib (45 and 30 minutes) and one in her car seat at Sam's Club 45-ish minutes) and Caleb napped for three hours! He fell asleep on my run to the park. Pretty good day, hot though. Grateful for our garage door opener so we can park inside! Only lasted a few minutes at the park. Leila is hard to shade and keep cool. She also doesn't handle the wind well, she still has the reflex to gasp and hold her breath.

He wanted to hold Leila and give her some loves.

A little too much brotherly love.

Getting bigger

 Shifting Caleb's sleep schedule to a bedtime of 7-7:30 pm with assistance from Leila's doctor appointment Thursday that kept him up from his nap for an extra hour and a half. Friday we successfully had both kids still in bed at 6 am! Leila also only fed once between 8 pm and 6 am!

Caleb kept wanting to make sure the doctor and nurses weren't hurting Leila throughout her appointment. He cried more for her shots than she did. 

 Watched Luke on Wednesday and Baldwin girls Thursday. Caleb likes to play with friends but is starting to be more possessive of his things.

 We went to Waterway Square with Dad Friday afternoon to splash in the fountains and feed the fish. Apparently I didn't take any pictures playing in the fountains with the camera.

Some bread for the fish...

Some bread for me.

Look at all of the fish!

Saturday morning while Dad was playing basketball.

Saturday we exercised and did a lot of yard work (I took the kids to the park while Al mowed), showered, took naps and went to the community pool party. While putting Caleb's shoes on, I noticed he was hot but he's almost always hot and sweaty so other than making a comment to Al about it, didn't think much of it. At the party he splashed in the fountains a little, jumped in the bounce house, ate a little and went on the swing. 

He was pretty subdued as we left the park and went to Sam's Club but still happy and pointing out trucks as we drove. At Sam's club, we were almost done when Caleb started being fussy and trying to lay down in the cart... Unheard of for him! Allen picked him up and he was really hot. He almost fell asleep in Allen's arms and did fall asleep on the way home. 

Once home (5:15 pm), we checked his temperature (102.7 on the forehead) and gave him Tylenol. It was too early to put him to bed so we turned on Tangled as Allen held him and I nursed Leila. He went in and out of sleep for about ten minutes, with abnormally loud breathing and kept covering his face with his hands. All of the sudden (5:30 pm), his eyes shot open wide and he had a scared look on his face. Allen looked down as Caleb's eyes glazed over and he turned blue. Allen rolled Caleb on his side to ask me if I thought he looked blue and he stiffened up and started convulsing. This lasted two to three minutes, then while I was on the phone with 911, he started breathing again but was still unconscious, with his eyes open. 

The EMS supervisor arrived before the ambulance and gave Caleb oxygen and checked his vitals as Caleb began to become more lucid. His eyes started moving back and forth with no recognition of what was going on and then he fell asleep. As the firemen arrived with the defibrillator, the EMS guy downgraded Caleb's code/urgency level to a febrile seizure. They left and the ambulance arrived to transport Caleb to the hospital. As Allen carried Caleb to the ambulance, he woke up but still took another ten minutes before realizing that he didn't know where he was and didn't like the cords and things attached to him. 

I rode with him in the ambulance (no lights flashing) and he was too tired to even hold or play with Allen's iPhone, which is saying something. when we got to the hospital, he was crying and pointing to the door... Get me outta here!

Caleb starting to become a little more lucid.

The next five hours were lots of tests and crying and very nice nurses. It took three tries, the first two with him mummy-tied down with a sheet and four people holding him (he was stronger than they thought), to get a needle in to get blood for the blood work and start giving him fluids. Those two attempts were painful and unsuccessful, the only thing that calmed Caleb down was an America's Funniest Videos-type show. He thinks its funny when people drop things or fall down or get hit by a ball. 

After the first two times the called the NICU to send a nurse and she stayed to take care of Caleb until we were discharged around 11 pm. She got the IV in him much more easily and just had Allen holding him. Caleb peed just in time... Right before they were going to insert a catheter to get a urine sample. 

We were just waiting for them to determine the cause of the fever and it turns out he had a minor ear infection... A big scare for something so simple. 

Febrile seizures aren't necessarily caused by high fevers, he had a higher temperature on Sunday between doses of ibuprofen and Tylenol than he had before the seizure. It was just how quickly his fever spiked that caused it. We just have to watch out from now on if he starts running a temperature. Within 24 hours of being on an antibiotic he was back to normal... Running and laughing and playing.

They both took good naps on Sunday after a crazy Saturday evening/night.