My son had a febrile seizure a year ago...I sympathize with how scary it was. He was blue and laboring to breath, after the seizure. The police officer who arrived first had oxygen but not the proper tubes for an infant; all he could do was hold the oxygen in front of him.
Anyways, I found your posting because once again he has a fever, so I'm in hyper-alert mode. No more seizures since that one, but my wife and I have practically become experts in managing fevers (alternating tylenol/motrin every 3 hours, baths seem to bring fevers down, but make it spike once they're out, cool washcloths, or in a crisis, ice, under the armpits and groin...whew). He gets fevers pretty frequently, but the level of stress has never diminished. It was the scariest day of my life; no question.
The worst thing is people who know of them and say, "oh, they're common," or "they're harmless." Let them witness one and then say that. I get that they're most often harmless, but nonetheless....they're horrifying.
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My son had a febrile seizure a year ago...I sympathize with how scary it was. He was blue and laboring to breath, after the seizure. The police officer who arrived first had oxygen but not the proper tubes for an infant; all he could do was hold the oxygen in front of him.
Anyways, I found your posting because once again he has a fever, so I'm in hyper-alert mode. No more seizures since that one, but my wife and I have practically become experts in managing fevers (alternating tylenol/motrin every 3 hours, baths seem to bring fevers down, but make it spike once they're out, cool washcloths, or in a crisis, ice, under the armpits and groin...whew). He gets fevers pretty frequently, but the level of stress has never diminished. It was the scariest day of my life; no question.
The worst thing is people who know of them and say, "oh, they're common," or "they're harmless." Let them witness one and then say that. I get that they're most often harmless, but nonetheless....they're horrifying.
June 4, 2009 - 2:09pmThis Comment
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