Wednesday night we had been up late because a grocery shopping trip that was supposed to take only half an hour ended up taking 2 hours and we didn't have dinner until 11 so she didn't go to bed until Midnight and asleep until 130am because she said she was scared of the dark. I had finally gone to sleep around 2am only to be woken up right before 3 by a crying Rachel. I thought maybe she had peed her bed but when I picked her up I found her covered in throw up. I cleaned her off and gave her a quick bath and washed her sheets, I did so much better than I thought I would with the throw up. I asked her if she had gotten too hot and that was why she threw up she said yes but than about a 5 minutes later she turned around and threw up in the toilet so I knew she was really sick. We ended up staying in the bathroom for the majority of the night because she didn't want to leave.
She finally fell asleep for about 3 hours and when she woke up she drank some water and wanted a vitamin to help her feel better. I gave her one and not 5 minutes later she was throwing up all the water and vitamin. I called her doctor's office and the nurse ended up prescribing some Zofran for her to help with the nausea. I gave her half a tablet at around 1030am and she didn't throw up at all Thursday, she just slept.
Thursday night I was so exhausted from being up all night and day taking care of my sweetie and the baby that I passed out hard when I finally went to bed. I woke up at 4am to take Rachel to the bathroom to pee and feed Joleen. While I was on the couch feeding the baby I saw Josh get up and go the bathroom. Apparently he had been tossing and turning all night. He was sick with the same thing that Rachel had the night before. I applaud him because even though it was obvious he didn't feel well he still trying to go to work Friday. He got there and tried to lift a cabinet to install and couldn't. He came right back home and slept all day. Rachel did the same thing. Friday was the quietest day I have had since before Joleen was born. After Josh slept all day Friday and Friday night he was feeling a lot better and was able to go back to work on Saturday.
I had a feeling that Rachel would be sleepy and weak Friday but I didn't expect her to be the same way on Saturday. Actually she was worse. In the morning it seemed like she might be close to her old self but as the day went on it was obvious that she wasn't.
Josh came home around 730pm and I wasn't expecting him back then because he said he had 2 kitchen installs but apparently he was able to do one and decided to not push himself by doing the other one since he had been so sick the night before. He had changed his close and gotten Rachel to get up and play with some Play-Doh and was sitting down to eat some dinner. Rachel was playing and suddenly she was laying on the ground. I got her to sit up and thought maybe she was dizzy and her head hurt so I decided to give her some Children's Ibuprofen. This was around 8pm. I just finished giving her the dose when she cried out and laid back down with her fists clenched tight, she was stiff and shaking slightly. I yelled to Josh that she was having a seizure. I just sat there in shock and didn't know what to do. Josh picked her up and put her over his shoulder and when he did this I noticed that her lips were blue and I started freaking out. I called 911 and said she was having a seizure and just ended up hanging up and we packed up the baby and I held her in my lap while we drove to the ER. What was so scary about the whole thing was the she was so slow when she woke up. Her speech was slurred and she couldn't move her body, all she did was flop around. We kept her awake and had her checked out in triage. But the time the doctor checked her she was talking more like herself and freaking out because she was scared and didn't want the doctor touching her.
The doctor wanted us to describe what had happened and what lead up to the seizure so I told him everything that I just told you. He said it didn't sound quite like a seizure but more like a breath-holding spell or if it was a seizure it was from dehydration and or from a fever. She hadn't had a fever at all that day. I looked online at webmd about breath-holding spells and I really think that might have been what she experienced.
From Webmd: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/tc/breath-holding-spells-topic-overview
Breath-Holding Spells are usually a period of about about a minute where the child will stop breathing. They are usually caused from when the child is so angry that s/he hold his/her breath until they pass out, that's called Cyanotic breath-holding spells. But the one that I believe Rachel experienced is called a Pallid breath-holding spell. The symptoms are: A single cry or no cry at all, Slowing of the heart, Pale skin color, Sweating, and Sleepiness or fatigue after the episode. Sometimes the child can have a seizure during a spell. A Pallid breath-holding spell is often caused by a response to fear, pain, and injury. I think Rachel's was from her being so weak and pain of being dehydrated.
When we got home from the ER and she was acting a lot better and she ended up falling asleep on the couch around 10pm. I put her to bed and around 11 and she woke up a little bit crying, so I sang her her lullabys and we all went to bed.
Today she has been an angel. She is so close to being her normal self again, I am so relieved. I don't know what I would do if she was sick for another day. She's still weak but she's been moving around and not living on the couch. She ate 2 helping of yogurt and has been drinking her water very well. I would say she is finally on the mends.
Last night made me and Josh realize how precious our lives are. You never know if you are going to be granted the next day or not. I don't even want to think about what could have been. So now, I am just going to cuddle with my princess and cover her with kisses and let her know how much I love her.
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