The Saddest Site that You've Ever Seen

Thanks to those of you've who've noticed us missing and wondered if we are ok.  The answer is yes and no.  The biggest reason that we've been missing is that we just went on a two week vacation, but let's rewind to the day before we were supposed to leave.  I was talking to a friend on the phone.  I picked up Ollie when he was getting fussy.  I was holding him, trying to calm him when he had a seizure.

My world stopped.

One moment he was fine, and the next his body jerked to a weird angle and went rigid.  His eyes rolled back, and he stopped breathing.  I screamed for Larry while Ollie turned purple.  I know it sounds dramatic, but I had no idea what was going on, and I felt like I was watching his life slip away and there was nothing that I could do.  After about what felt like an eternity, but was probably a minute, Ollie started breathing again, but went limp and would not respond to anything.    

Larry called 911, but then we decided we could probably get the the hospital faster if we drove ourselves rather than wait for an ambulance.  We dropped a poor, bewildered Creed off at Tai & Kersten's down the street (thanks for running out to meet us at our car to get him).

At the hospital Ollie finally started acting a little more like himself. They decided to do a scan to make sure he didn't have a brain injury.  This was the saddest scene that I have seen in a very long while.

 Thankfully, everything was clear.  They think that Ollie did indeed have a seizure, but they don't know why.  Seizures are a misfiring of the brain, and can be common in small children since their brains are just developing.  It might be nothing.

 After following up with our pediatrician and a neurologist the next day, we were cleared to leave on vacation because there is nothing they can do unless he has another seizure (in which case they will cover him with electrodes for 24 hours to see what they can see).  Hopefully it will not come to that.

So we were off on our vacation, and all the while every tiny cry, cough, and wiggle from Ollie made my heart skip a beat while I watched for any sign of something wrong.

So far, so good!