One Scary Night

On July 21st Taylor's brother Jon came over for dinner and a movie. We put little man down to bed for the night and settled in to enjoy our evening. About two hours after we put him down he woke up crying, which is pretty normal for Gav. It usually just means he can't find his binky. I sent Tay up to help him, but then realized his cry was not normal. I ran up the stairs after him to find Gav in Taylors arms having a seizure. The next 10 minutes are kind of a blur, but he did have two more seizures, his eyes were rolling around and he was gray and unresponsive to our voices. We called 911 and an ambulance came. Within seconds of the ambulance arriving we had like 30 people from the ward outside our door. As I got in the ambulance with Gav, the bishop talked to Taylor and told us to keep him updated. (I love where we live!). We made it to Riverton hospital in a few minutes and were taken to the ER Room. After about an hour of observations and numerous tries to give Gav an I, they admitted him due to the fact they could not figure out why he had his seizures. He wasn't sick, he wasn't on medication, and he was totally normal when he went to bed. 

We finally got up to the pediatrics unit at about 1:30am. I was exhausted and so was poor Gav. Riverton hospital has a satellite unit of Primary Children's Hosptial, so I felt very taken care of. Gav was the only patient in the whole unit that night so we got the 5 star treatment. We spent a very short night, and then were discharged in the morning with prescriptions and an order for an EEG. 

In the morning, as we waited to get discharged, Gavin got to play in the amazing toy room. We also enjoyed the warm summer sunshine coming in through the huge windows. We still don't know why Gav had his seizures. We pray that he never has anymore. The EEG was normal and the neurologist from Primary's said that sometimes this just happens, but he was puzzled that he had 3 consecutive seizures. It taught us to never take a day for granted, to live each day to it's fullest, and even when he is whiny and hard to handle, to love on our little G-man every day!