Lexi's Seizure

Lexi had a febrile seizure on Thursday morning. She had a temperature all night Wednesday night and I ended up taking her to the doctor Thursday morning. Her temperature was only 100.1 at the doctor's office, and they couldn't find anything wrong with her, so they sent us home and told us to keep an eye on her temperature. We went home and she fell asleep on the couch. She woke up after about 10 minutes and came and layed her head on my shoulder and fell back asleep. After a few minutes, she started breathing hard, and then I felt her start to shake. I sat up and looked at her, and her left arm was shaking really fast, her eyes were half open and glazed over, and I started calling her name and she was not responding-just blankly staring. I called 911, and they had me put a cold wash cloth on the back of her neck. The seizure stopped soon after I did that-her body relaxed and she started moaning. After a few minutes of that, she stopped moaning and I held her until the paramedics got here. They evaluated her and said she seemed to be stable and gave me the option of either having them bring her to Children's Hospital or I could drive her back to her doctor's office. I decided to take her to her doctor and called James to have him meet us there. She still was not acting herself at this point, just blankly staring the whole car ride to the doctor. Once we got there, she started to come back to normal and I told her daddy was coming and so she started talking about "dada coming". The nurse practitioner at the doctor's office evaluated her and everything seemed fine. Her temperature was 103.6 this time at the office so we gave her another dose of ibuprofen. Lexi came home and slept for a few hours and seemed back to normal when she woke up. She hasn't had a fever since Thursday, and has been her happy energetic self all weekend. It was a really scary thing to go through, but everything ended up turning out okay. Now that she has had a febrile seizure, we have to be really careful when she gets a fever and make sure she gets tylenol/ibuprofen to keep it down. Hopefully it won't happen again, but they told us that kids can be prone to these seizures until about 5 years of age.

On a different note, I finally posted pictures of our cruise, so scroll down to see those. There are a lot of pictures!