Monday, November 14, 2011

The Seizure

Saturday, after having donuts in honor of our bookends' birthdays (Michaela, our oldest, turned 15, and Keturah, our youngest, turned one), Eon suddenly started crying and grabbing his belly while rolling around in obvious pain. We tried everything to calm him and to discover what the problem was, to no avail. 

After a half hour of this, we called the doctor on call and left a message for the nurse. Before she returned our call, he calmed somewhat. Then, while he was laying on our bed, his eyes half-way closed, his eyes started flitting from side to side. I called his name and he didn't respond. When I called him louder, his eyes opened wider and stilled, but didn't focus. Then they half closed and flitted some more. The whole thing probably lasted 30 seconds or so. 


When the nurse called and I explained what happened, she sent us to the ER. Eon was completely exhausted by then and didn't even move when Shawn buckled him into the van. Pulling into the ER parking lot, I thought he looked pale and I couldn't get him to wake up. I shook his leg and patted him and called his name loudly. Nothing. Freaked out, I pulled into the nearest parking spot, yanked him from his car seat and took off running.

Halfway to the door he said, "Momma. Down!" After that, he acted totally normal. He was diagnosed with an ear infection. I tried to hold him down for a CT scan. That was fun. They were able to get enough to rule out hydrocephalus and a brain tumor, anyway.


We were instructed to have our pediatrician order an EEG and follow-up with a pediatric neurologist. We have an appointment with our ped tomorrow morning.

Honestly, I'm a little stressed about it all. I was very afraid on the way to the ER. 


Also, I'm in a lot of physical pain. I hurt my back dashing into the hospital with a 30 pound bundle of low muscle tone. I just recently recovered from a back injury that happened over 3 months ago. I have some thoughts about this new injury that I haven't sorted out, yet. I'll keep you posted.

For now, please pray for my boy. 

12 comments:

  1. Praying for Eon!

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  2. Oh,how scary!! I'm so glad he's okay and sorry to hear you hurt your back.I'm praying for Eon and you.

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  3. Praying, friend...for you both.....love you!

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  4. Oh no! Is this brand new? Maybe just a quirky virus? Am hoping it was a one off & he feels better STAT.

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  5. Oh Tara, that sounds terrifying! Praying for you guys and especially Eon!

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  6. Oh my goodness this is so scary. Thankful he is ok. Praying for him and for you!

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  7. Praying. Oh man...that's awful. Hugs and positive, healing vibes your way.

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  8. Wow, how frightening! I hope you find some answers and that it's nothing serious. Sorry to hear about your back... I have to carry a 46 pound low muscle tone bundle on occasion, and it's a killer!

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  9. VERY glad it's not a brain tumor! I will say as somebody who now has seizures, that the right drugs can often fix the problem with no weird side effects!

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  10. Hope the EEG is able to give you all some conclusive information. LC had what was labed "transient seizures" a few summers ago. Her neurologist said about 30% of children with Down syndrome experience seizure-like activity if they're going through a stage of increased brain development (making speech, or motor gains) or if they're under stress (sickness, etc.) Hopefully Eon's will fall under that category but I know how worrisome it will be for you until they can tell you something for certain. We'll be praying for you all...thanks for keeping us updated on little mister. xoxo

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