Charlotte's First Seizure

I never could have imagined ever typing the title of this post.  Charlotte, my baby, has had two seizures.  There is so much stress and confusion and frustration when your child has a medical problem.  I'm not the only one to ever go through this, but sometimes it feels as if I am so alone.

 Her first seizure was so terrible.  I thought she was going to die when she stopped breathing and turned blue.  It led us to call 911.  We got to a private hospital by ambulance, the hospital she was born at.  Big mistake.  I will call that hospital #1..., but that is a misnomer because it's not #1, it sucks so bad I can't even relive the pure bullshit they put us through to write it here.

 We ended up having to leave and drive to another hospital 45 minutes away.  Hospital #2.  We were there because I was so stressed out, I had gotten the wrong directions from Google and drove to the wrong hospital.  That led Charlotte to have to be transferred by ambulance to the correct hospital...hospital #3.

Charlotte was there to be observed after what the Dr.'s at hospital #2 & #3 called  an ALTE- Apparent Life Threatening Event.  We stayed for almost 24 hours and then were released.  

The worst test by far was the EEG.  Not because of the actual test, it's painless, but for two other reasons:  Sadly, Charlotte seems to have my tolerance for medication and came out of sedation right as she was supposed to be getting her test done.  They had to re sedate her.  Also, She had to go without eating for 5 hours.  Poor baby was starving.  I was a pacing, blithering, crying mess as the sweet nurses tried to administer the second sedation meds.  Charlotte was inconsolable.  I just couldn't stand it.  Seeing my child so upset, so hungry, so confused and needing me...and I could do nothing but break down.

Finally, she was alseep and the EEG tech let me hold her while he gave her the test.  This hospital knows exactly how to take care of parents and children.  I am so thankful we ended up there.

All in all, Charlotte had a blood test, a CT scan, and an EEG.