Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Cheri Bergeron <cbergeron@holmescc.edu>
Date: April 14, 2013 1:48:14 AM CDT
Subject: Update, at UMC for observation
Madalyn threw up again on Saturday (after not since Thursday at school). It started with her stomach hurting while I was teaching at the gym. It started at 9:15 am.
This time she looked dazed, slow to respond, and unsteady. During the episode she slept intermittently hard....and then would wake and throw up and be out of it. She stayed this way for over an hour, and I drove her to the ER. She was still this way for several minutes after being in the ER and they chose to give her Diastat shortly after we arrived (around 11:00 am).
When she woke up at 1:30 pm she began to return to normal. By the evening she was completely normal.
They did an EEG after they admitted her to the floor, but she was over the episode by then. She is being watched over night and we will get To see the neurologist on call tomorrow.
I think the doctors think it was seizure related (her blood levels were all normal and medication levels where they are supposed to be). But I did not want to give the Diastat at home without the ER because I fear the AEDs could be causing nausea, vomitting, and dizziness. I trust Dr. Parker, but much of what she has to go by is my observations....which seem so subjective.
So we are at the hospital and hopefully a step closer to knowing if the newest and even longer episodes are seizures.
Also since this would be the second time in a week Diastat was needed, I need to find out how likely it may quit working ......and what To do then....
I'm worried I should have given her Diastat at the 5 minute mark, but I was unsure that it was a seizure. And afraid that she was throwing up because of already sedating medicine. The problem is, each time looks different! It's hard to know:(
Cheri
Sent from my iPhone
No comments:
Post a Comment