Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Seizure

Although, I usually try to post positive things on my blog, I realize that a lot of our friends and family check on us through our blog and I wanted to reassure everyone that Dolce is doing just fine after her seizure. Thank you to everyone for your concern and kindness. We have felt a lot of love and care in the past few days.
This past Sunday while we were at church, David had taken Dolce out and after a few minutes, she was wanting to come back in and David stood in her way. She got really upset and layed down on the floor and the next thing David noticed was that her eyes had rolled back into her head, she was shaking and turning blue, she was having some weird breathing patterns, and her jaw was moving up and down like she was chewing something. David came and got me and I sent him down the street to get our car to take her to the hospital. By the time he got back, about 5 minutes later, she was still seizing and didn't stop until we were in the car. During the car ride she seemed to be in a postictal state and was unresponsive, although she was breathing.
At the Emergency room, an IV was started and Dolce was given Ativan while the Doctors and Nurses began their seizure protocol. This involved a lot of tests, beginning with a temperature check. Because febrile seizures are quite common and harmless in babies, it would have been good news to see a fever after a seizure. Dolce didn't have a fever so other tests had to be done including a chest x-ray and CT scan, blood and urine tests, and a lumbar puncture and culture. Dolce was also given Rocephen in case this could have been caused by Meningitis,( the Lumbar culture takes 72 hours,which would be a long time to let Meningitis go if it was present.)
Each of the tests came back normal, which felt very frightening because they weren't able to find the cause of the seizure. She was admitted to the hospital for more observation and our hope was to be able to have an MRI done that day. However, we found that Valley View doesn't do MRI's for babies under 3 years old and that we would have to go to ST. George to have it done and that it would be unlikely to be able to schedule it sooner than 2 weeks away. This was also the case with an EEG. (These tests most likely wont be recommended unless she has another seizure.)
We are home now, still without any diagnoses for what exactly happened. This has been very scary for us and we are watching her very closely at home. The good news is that she is acting very normally and has returned to her usual self. We're hoping to keep things pretty calm in our house for a while in case this may have been some sort of stimulus overload for her. She's also taking an antibiotic that will hopefully eliminate any sickness she might be fighting. (although her blood work didn't show any sign of infection.)
Thank you to everyone! We appreciate every prayer and gift of support that you have given. She's doing fine, and recovering back to the happy girl she is.

5 comments:

Ali said...

What a horrible scare! I'm sorry to hear about this. I'm glad she's recovering well. Your sweet Dolce will be in our prayers.

Meridy said...

I'm so glad that she is doing much better now! How scary. I wouldn't have handled that so well.

Melissa and Allen said...

That is so scary Abby. Please keep us updated and let us know if we can do anything. I'm so sorry you had to go through that and now you are left wondering. I'm glad she's back to her normal cute self though. Good luck to you guys and our prayers are with you.

Jen said...

Abby this is so crazy, Eli just had the same thing happen to him on Friday. It was terrifying. I have never been so frightened in my life. And i am so sorry that you guys had to go through that. I just want you to know we're thinking about you guys. And hopefully these 2 darlings will be alright!!

Jackie said...

Oh my gosh that is the scariest thing ever! I am so sorry, as a parent everything goes through your mind! You are an amazing Mom, and I'm sure she will be just fine! Poor little baby! Keep us posted!