This is Claire and Tommy on our family sick day. Some crazy virus hit our house and made Tommy sick and worse gave Claire a Febrile seizure (a seizure caused by a fever rising to rapidly). When I got home from work the night before Claire had a fever and was breathing hard. I called the doctor and gave her a breathing treatment and meds. She seemed to calm down, do we decided to keep her in our bed to watch her. I left the music channel on and the hall light on so I could see her. At about 2 am she was just falling asleep, I didn't want to bother her and her fever was only 100.7 so I let her go to sleep and layed by her. At 4am I felt her move and looked at her. She was having a seizure. I woke up John and he turned on the light. Our baby was blue and her eyes were rolled up, she was shaking and not responding to us. We called 911. They sent help. By the time the paramedics got there she had stopped seizing and was pretty limp and unresponsive to her name. She also had this very distant cry, not our sweet baby. So needless to say we took a trip in the ambulance to Mary Bridge Hospital. It was very scary. She finally started to come around about halfway to the hospital.
Poor John had to stay back with Tommy. He was a nervous wreck. We had all sorts of test done and they gave her some antibiotics and sent us home.
She should be fine from now on and isn't at risk for epilepsy but we do have to be more aggresive with Fevers in the future.
Putting her in her own bed the night after the fever was so hard. Neither one of us wanted to leave her alone. We even put the monitor in our room which we haven't done since she was little.
Everyone is back to normal. Thank goodness. We will all be getting our flu shots this year!
