Sunday, April 20, 2008

Febrile seizure/ Ambulance ride

We had quite a bit of excitement here lastnight! About 6 pm our dear baby Savannah had a seizure! she had been crying when Jess was holding her so I took her and she got stiff with her eyes glazed over, she then began to shake. I called for everyone to come help me and Em came in to help get her sweater off she then was unresponsive and finally went limp. I went to the phone to call 911. By now complete chaos was if full progress!! Em and Jess were holding her and calling her name, and putting cold water on her. Steve was calling 911 on his cell phone (he didnt know I was already talking to them). By now she had stopped breating and was turning blue. I could hear the ambulance coming so we took her out front to meet them. Seemed like an eternity!! When the paramedic came to the door she was starting to breath again but unresponsive. It was as if she was looking at us but not seeing us. Then Steve put his hand on her chest and she reached for him and pulled his beard. He then cried (and who could blame him). We were taken to Beloit Memorial hospital. They did a chest xray which was clear, and took her temp which was 104.9!! Right away they gave her tylenol and then motrin. This brought her temp down to 102. They gave her a shot in each leg of an antibiotic because she had an ear infection as well. We were then sent home. So far her temps. have been anywhere from 99.5-103.1. I have been diligently giving her tylenol every 4 hours. It seems to keep it down below 104. I am going to call our pediatrician tomorrow morning. Please pray that she gets better quickly. I will try to update tomorrow.

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