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Hello everyone, this is pretty new to me.. I just signed up on this website. Today is June 5th 2011. Just yesterday I am almost 95% positive that my 4 and a half year old son had a fever induced seizure. I never called 911 or took him into the hospital as I have worked with individuals with development disabilities and epilepsy for 5 years now and have much experience with it. I do have training and certificates to handle these situations and to anyone you ask i handle them well. So I am keeping an eye on him and if i notice anything happen even one more time my plan is to take him into the hospital to get neurology testing done. To explain this to all of you a little better about my son... for the past 2 weeks now he has been on and off sick. High fever for a day or two then he is fine and playing like normal for 3 to 4 days and back to having a high fever, not eating or throwing up when he does eat. chills and all. pale white face red red cheeks and glossy red eyes. His entire body was hot hot to the touch. I have given him fever and pain reducer medication as needed and directed by a public health nurse and or the instructions on the bottle. His temp was as high as 104 degrees. I put my son in a cold bath to reduce the fever which worked for a while and the medication helped as well. This was done yesterday morning and the night before. Then all day yesterday he seemed to been a bit better to my comfort, i hoped that it would finally be done with. At bedtime when he was changing for bed i came upstairs and looked down the hall and into my sons bedroom as he was standing in front of his bedroom doorway. He appeared to be pale again. Suddenly he went from standing flat footed on the floor appearing to look kinda sad/sick feeling, arms down at his sides, frown on his face to his eyes and mouth opened wide, head lifted up looking directly in front of himself. up on his tippy toes and his arms came up against his chest, hands pointing towards each other in a claw like position and 2 light shakes of his body then his head turned slowly facing me and his body relaxed after about 10 seconds and he appeared dazed. None responsive to anything i said but awake and eyes open. I asked him if he was just playing around and if he was trying to make a funny face at me. I did not get a response. which for my son is not normal and usually if he were playing around making faces he would have stopped as soon as he saw me which is not what happened at all. it lasted for about 7 seconds after his head faced me. It took about 5 minutes to get a response but he did not know what i was talking about, did not remember anything and said.. "i was just getting ready for bed mommy i did not play at all." Then he finished getting dressed and got into his bed. All day today he seemed fine. yesterday about 2 hours before that incident he was acting a little off. but i didn't think that anything like that would happen. as of about 30 minutes ago he seems to be feeling a little warm again. I gave him some medication and am watching him very closely. To be honestly I am freaking out inside. I am terrified even though I know how to deal with this. It is an completely different feeling when it's your child and not just a client or resident. I am so scared for my son and I am praying that he does not have more episodes. One of my old clients got his first seizure through a fever and now more than 10 years later he has full epilepsy, seizures all the time. I am terrified that could happen to my son. As a mother does anyone have any helpful ways to mentally deal with this. I should be more calm about it than I am and honestly I feel like im screaming inside. I am happy to hear about everyone who has come out of this well and healthy. I pray that no man woman or child should ever have to endure this but that prayer will not be answered any time soon. I just need a little help and strength. Why can't I get over this horrible feeling and get rid of these horrible thoughts. Part of me says don't be silly, he's fine he will be ok no matter what, and the other part of me say's, he's my baby, this is not ok. I have seen 10 minute long seizures and they are scary. but that was nowhere near as scary as seeing what i saw from my son last night and it was only 10 seconds. Maybe i am just over freaking out here. I just feel like I have noone to talk to. I don't want anyone to think that I am a spaz.. this is just not like me. I don't frighten easily... why can't i get past this feeling. has anyone else felt this? what did you do to ease this?

June 5, 2011 - 8:51pm

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