I received a call New Years Day from Rebecca's mother informing me that she just had a seizure and she was heading to where Rebecca was at and would probably arrive before the ambulance. That was all she knew, therefore all I knew. It is such a helpful and infuriatingly frustrating feeling knowing your child is hurting and you are absolutely powerless to help. I was fighting back the tears because her older sister was home and I didn't want to frighten her. It took a few minutes to regroup and then I told her what I knew. I thought about hopping into the car and making the 50 minute drive, but remembered her mother saying she would have Rebecca transported to Green Bay so chances are I would have been on the highway the same time and missed her. I was left to wait.
I then turned my focus on trying to learn about seizure's and what causes them and consequences of them. An hour or so later her mother calls and says Rebecca had been awake for about 10-15 minutes when she started playing with one of those flashing light toys and that's when she had the seizure, fell and hit her head. I was somewhat relieved that this was induced by a flashing light toy rather than just a random seizure. Those scare the living hell out of me because they are impossible to predict.
Rebecca's mom brought her to the hospital in Green Bay a few hours later to have some tests done and everything was positive and as it should be.
We now have several appointments throughout the next few weeks to have a physical and EEG (whatever that is) administered and then towards the end of the month we evaluate the EEG results.
What I'm curious about is if any of you have any experience with seizures and are their things we should be looking for or prepare for or ... anything really because I'm really in the dark. I've tried asking the clinic, but they talk really fast and with a ton of abbreviations that just make no sense to me at all. Thanks.