Scariest day of my life

[fatal xception]

Last night our two year old had a low grade fever and some congestion, but nothing to worry about.

Today, when I come home from work, my wife said that he still had a fever and she was going to Target to get some Motrin.

I was sitting and rocking Luke when I noticed his lips twitching. His pacifier fell out of his mouth. Next I noticed his pupils were fixed and dialated. When I got up, he was completely limp in my arms, not responding and convulsing. We got him in the car and drove t the hospital. During the ride he continued to twitch and started to turn blue, although I could still hear him breathing. By the time we got there (10 minutes), his color was better and he had stopped convulsing. A couple of minutes later, he was able to focus on myself and my wife.

His temp was 104.5 but everything else was ok. They immediately gave him some more motrin and some tylenol. 3 and 1/2 hours later he was running around and playing with the beads.

The doc said it was a febrile seizure that is common with sudden increases in tempature, but usually no permanant damage is done.

Today was a great day because he was ok, but horrible all through the episode.

I love my sons to death.

I will never be able to erase the image of my beautiful little boy convulsing in my arms.

Right now I have tears in my eyes picturing it again.

RJ

[Xeroid]

Man! That would scare me to death too! Glad he's feeling better. Cute Kids!

Mike

[Brainchild]

Those scary moments tend to make ya appreciate the good ones a little more. Glad he's alright.Great looking kids

[maface]

I'm glad your Son is alright. That does sound scary

[CERuppel]

Fatal:

All of my sympathys and best wishes (and maybe a good stiff drink too) go out to you.

You see, I am a grand mal epileptic (controlled) and have had to deal with it for my whole life. I pass out, have memory holes and siezures and all that. I have also witnessed the same in my own son.

It was only a few times when he was real young, but...

That is probably one of the scared-est moments of my life.

That first night (after everything was back to normal) (yeah, right...) I finally knew what I had put my parents thru. (Pay back is a bad thing).

Remember that we are here for you.

[korgul]

Dude, that would have scared the s--- outta me. I am glad that he is alright. It really is amazing how resilient kids are. One minute they are in the emergency room at the hospital, the next they are running around like nothing ever happened.

I know when my 5 yr old (3 at the time) put his foot through a window it had me pretty shaken. To see him taken away in an ambulance was one of the worst sites I have ever seen. He ended up getting 8 stiches in his foot. The cut was about 3 - 4 inches long which was pretty much his whole foot at the time.

As CE said we are here for ya man.

[DVNT1]

fatal xception: just about a couple months ago our 20month old had a similar occurence (seizure) in the morning, but he didn't have a fever. It is a very scarey thing. It made us real nervous at night for a while. We would wake and check on him at nearly any sound. Since that time though, we haven't seen any re-occurrances. Doctors have done several tests trying to find the cause (MRI, sleep deprived EEGs, etc.).
I hope your son's was strictly related to the fever and doesn't have any more either.

[fatal xception]

Thanks for the kind thoughts. As you can see, I am up very early after a late night. Kind of hard to sleep when you hear him roll over and wonder if you should check on him.

His temp is still high (100), so I'll be up for a while. :yawn:

[Terminal23]

This is why I would never have children, I cannot take things like this happening.I'm a big wus, I know.Pets are all I can handle until they die and then it sucks. So,children are out of the question. Whenever I see a sick child or handicap kid my heart breaks.

[fatal xception]

LOL terminal...It's worth it, believe me.

Had another scare this afternoon. His temp spiked again (105.4), but a dose of tylenol and a cool water bath brought it down pretty quickly. Luckily he didn't sieze again.

Guess I won't be going into work tomorrow, unless things change radically for the better.