Dear Febrile Seizure, I HATE you!

As you may have guessed I have witnessed my very first seizure, and it happened to be Mr. T. Two Friday's ago we were laying down for our nap, because I like nap time as much as he does sometimes, when he woke me up when he started shaking on me. I thought he was trying to wake me or maybe he was cold but when I looked at him his lips were blue and his eyes were rolled back. It was, without a doubt, the scariest moment of my life! So I got him onto the floor and called 911. As soon as I started talking to the operator Mr. T stopped convulsing but he was still unresponsive. She had me check his breathing and told me where the ambulance was. It took them three minutes to get to my house. Three minutes! I am glad I live right on the edge of town! Once they walked in Mr. T was awake and pissed off! I can't blame him though. They did a sugar test and hooked him up to a pulse-ox and got some oxygen going just in case. Then we were off to the back of the ambulance. By this time the Hubby showed up after leaving work early and he went with Mr. T in the ambulance while I followed in the car.

When we got to the hospital Mr. T puked on himself so they put a gown on him, did more tests, including an x-ray, and finally gave us our own room instead of just a curtained off section. We waited there for about three hours when they told us it was most likely caused by a fever. They wanted to keep him over night but not at there hospital because of his heart. So they called over to his cardiologists hospital and they didn't want him either! We were however welcome to go to the hospital that has done all of his surgeries and of course where he was born. The problem with that, it is about 2-2 1/2 hours away. So the Hubs went by ambulance again while I went to pick up some company for my long ride (my brother) and met them there. As soon as we got there we were told we could be discharged. It was in fact a febrile seizure. So it took us longer to get down there then we were actually at the hospital. At least we got to check out some of the new hospital (it was newly built) while we were there.

So we drove home without waiting for morning, I wanted to skip the traffic, and didn't get much sleep for the next couple of days! End story of hectic/scary day!

The weather was nice here today so we decided we wanted to go to the park. We went and picked up one of our friends and did just that! Mr. T is the slide master and we found a park with nothing but slides, he loved it! Both boys would climb up the stairs and go down the slide without much thought as to where we were (we being the parents trying to help them up the steps and catching them at the end of the slide). Then we went and ran around the play castle they have for kids and came home. Mr. T was so tired he ate a hamburger (all of it) and fell asleep! The fresh air was nice though!

Then we went groceries shopping with a different friend. Him and his girlfriend got to ride in the car cart as we drove around the store. I have been trying out the couponing thing for about a month now. I was still surprised when we got to the check out and I saved about $20! My friend was so excited that she is going to start the couponing thing as well! Maybe we can learn together and get really good at it! Anyway, then I went to Walmart and saved about $10, so not to impressive but still ten more dollars in my pocket!

I am still not drinking pop, except for the can on the day of the E.R. trip, or trips! So a little deflated yeah me because I know I would still be going strong if not for that! I got out of the house today and walked through the park with my friend and the babies toddlers. I made her walk fast with me and almost lost her! She complained a little but then decided to step it up and try to keep up with me. So Yeah us! I have been eating more or less snack-y foods lately instead of making something so no yeah for me there. I am working a little at a time in the right direction though! Yeah me!