Sunday, March 20, 2011

Part 2 of nightmare seizure!

When I arrived at the hospital Avris seizure had finally stopped. She was not awake and still had a machine breathing for her. It did not take long for her to wake and start fighting the tube in her throat. The tube was removed and she began to breath with ease on her own. She was groggy from all the medications but seemed alert enough to know she was going to be ok.
The next morning the nerologist came walking in. He was looking at her chart when he aproched me and asked if she was paralized on her right or left side. I said " She is not paralized anywhere" His head snapped right up and looked at me as if he had the shock of his life time. He said "in all my years of practice I have never seen a prolonged seizure of that magnitude not cause paralisis on at least one side of the body". he then proceded to check her out and see for himself that she seemed uneffected from this seizure. She was tired and all her muscles ached but she was moving all her body parts.
Avri spent a couple more days in the hospital. We did notice that she could not write as well as she had before and her memory of so many things was gone. We were able to bring her home and although we were so grateful that she had the outcome she did, we were noticing she was no longer the same kid she was before the seizure. We addressed this at follow up appointments and the doctors said she simply went to long without oxygen to her brain and that she is so lucky to have the functions she did have.

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