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Friday, October 19, 2007 3:01 PM
Everything is fine now. My Mom went back to work today and we are hoping this kind of thing doesn't happen again. We are going to be determining a plan in case something like this does happen. I know there isn't much you can do when someone has a seizure but at least we can note what happened and give the doctors as much information as possible when we take her to the hospital.
11:18 a.m.
well I haven't been able to go back to sleep but that needs to happen soon. Everything is calm here right now, my Mom is sleeping and everything is fine. Thank you to everyone for your kind words and sharing your experiences. It means a lot to always have such wonderful support.
8:57 a.m.
well my Mom just got home and is looking alot better. They have upped her medication and hopefully that will help her not have another seizure. I slept through my alarm and am completely exhuasted I am going to try and go in for the afternoon, but I don't know. I think I need a mental health day.
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I swear people are going think I am making this up. I wish I was making it up. I just got home from the hospital. As some of you may know about a year and a half ago my Mom had a stroke and was very sick. She recovered extremely well and everyone was amazed by her progress. The only small after affect was sometimes she would get tremors in her left hand (the side that was affected by the stroke). She is on medication for it and it didn't seem like anything serious. Tonight she had a full seizure and I was woken up by my Dad yelling that she was seizing and he had just called an ambulence. When I ran upstairs she was completely stiff and shaking basically in a full blown seizure. Thank god I just finished my first aid training and knew what to do and the ambulence arrived extremely fast. She had come out of it when the ambulence got there but was really frightened and upset about what had happened.
I just got home from the hospital and basically they told us her medication levels are not high enough and they will be adjusting that. They will be keeping her until sometime this morning to make sure that all of her levels stablize and to give the neuro surgeon to look at her. She is fine now, just really tired.
I just thank the heavens that we were here when this happened and the ambulence came as quickly as it did. I hated seeing my Mom like that. Honestly seeing her seizing like that was a thousand times worse then when she had her stroke because we didn't know right away it was a stroke and obviously didn't have quite the same symptoms. My Dad is so protective over my Mom and has a very difficult time dealing with this kind of thing and I hate seeing him so upset.
I am sure everything will be fine now that they are adjusting her medciation...but just...I need to get off this ride for a few moments..