Elijah - an Angel Story

well the week has shot by - it was last sunday morning shortly after 5am that both Julie and I woke with the bang of something from Elijah's room and so I leapt from the bed and in his boor to find him flat on his back and beginning to cry. This was followed by some significant seizures drop seizures, absence and general. About 50-60 through from 5:30 to 7:30. I rang the hospital at 7:15 for some advise and the Doctor suggested bringing him in as soon as possible and so I put him in the car and went as quick as a could into the hospital I was there in less than 15 minutes and took the Roman law approach when it came to the stop lights. We went straight through to the Children's Acute assessment where they were waiting for us. The put an IV in and game him diazepam to stop the seizures. This was quite a challenge as he is both strong and active and wasn't that ready to have a needle in his hand and so there was lots of tape. The diazepam took almost and immediate effect and he was pretty drowsy. The doctor told me that because of the number of seizures they may have just been set off by the hit to his head or if they continued it could be as a result of a brain trauma. To be continued.......
20/03/07
After several hours Elijah still continued to have some small seizures and so they did a CT Scan which thankfully showed everything to be normal - they told us we should watch him over the next 24-48 hours to make sure he was ok. So we were much relived and so are in the process of looking for a more secure bed as well...