Tuesday night we gave Baileigh a bath and as Beth (my wife) was getting her dressed, Baileigh started acting funny. She went limp and started to stare off into space. Beth called me into the room and I took Baileigh and headed into our bedroom to put her on the bed. I noticed right away that some thing was going on. My first thought was that she was choking. When I got her on the bed I checked to make sue she was breathing then told Beth to call 911. My mother-in-law is a nurse and she is usually the first person we call but I knew this was serious so I wanted the EMTs there right away. The second call was to “grandma the nurse” (who by the way got there at about the same time as the EMTs—go grandma!!).
As soon as the first police officer got there, Baileigh started to come around. The EMT’s were right behind him and right away they suspected a febrile seizure. As anyone who knows my daughter can tell you, she is not fond of any strangers and when she let the EMTs look at her and eventually carry her out to the ambulance, I knew she was not feeling well. Baileigh, Beth and her mom went in the ambulance to the hospital and my father-in-law and I followed in my truck. She was in the hospital from 9 P.M. to 12 A.M. getting all kinds of tests. Everything came back negative. She got the febrile seizure due to the rapid rise in her body temperature. She had a 103 degree fever.
When I was lying on the bed with her during the seizure, I did not know what was going on. It really sucks to watch your kid go through something like that and you are there but totally helpless. After telling my mother about it, she told me I had two febrile seizures as a child. One involving a fever around 106 degrees. They do run in the family.
I am happy to say that by Wednesday morning, Baileigh was back to her usual self. We went to Toys “R” Us and she got a few toys for being a good girl in the hospital then went to the doctor’s for a follow up. After the doctor checked her out and said she was 100%, we went home for a much anticipated and needed nap.
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