Seizures, School, Sick & Shrek
June 4, 2007 | Updates
Well, this week turned out to be…annoying, I guess. Samuel had a seizure Tuesday morning and one again Wednesday morning. We still attended his preschool graduation, but he was not real happy about it because he was so tired from the seizure. You can tell by the look he is giving me as I try to take his picture.
And then… Four of us got sick :(. Little mister Nathan picked up a nasty cold somewhere and kindly passed it onto Samuel. Then I got it and Tom got it and the stupid thing has hung around for nearly a week now. Each of us faired a little differently with it. Nathan had a runny nose and was in a bad mood from about last Wednesday until today. I just felt extra, extra tired and had the nice and fun itchy nose and throat and ears and face - ugh! I sneezed and sneezed until I thought I’d die and just when I thought the cold was about gone, I coughed and coughed all last night and couldn’t sleep. Tom has felt awful and again, we are about 4 days into this and he felt worse today then he has so far. But I think poor Samuel got the worste of it.
About Thursday evening, I noticed something just wasn’t right with Samuel. He was very tired and holding still a lot more than usual. By Friday morning, I knew he didn’t feel good. So we just let him hang out and take it easy. In fact, he’d been in a pretty bad mood for a few days, so we’d been letting him off the hook with just about everything. He got to spend one afternoon at the little zoo near our house and another afternoon going to the movie with Aunt Kaylee. I thought it was the reduction in his baclofen causing him to be upset, but now I realize it was the onset of his cold.
Poor little guy had a nasty fever for most of Saturday and Sunday. He didn’t hardly move for 2 days. We took him for walks and let him lay outside and let him just relax, but he obviously felt awful. Today, he felt well enough to get on the floor and roll around a bit, but that didn’t last long. Tonight, I put him in the car and took him for a long ride because I could tell he was just sick of being in the house. He’s now fast asleep and I hope tomorrow will be better. He is more “twitchy” because of the fever and cold. Any stress like that makes him more prone to seizures, so I have been very careful to make sure he is sleeping A LOT! He seems to be getting over it on his own, though, so that’s definitely a good thing.
The one really fun thing he did do this week was go and see Shrek 3. He loves both of the Shrek movies, so I sent him to see the new one with Kaylee. Kaylee said he started smiling the minute the movie started and he didn’t move the entire time. He just smiled and enjoyed the whole show. One of the parents behind them even asked her how in the world she got him to sit so still through the whole movie when his kid was bouncing off the walls. My wiggly little man must have really been enjoying himself to hold that still.
So, that’s about it for this week. Not a real fun one (we even had to cancel Nathan’s birthday party), but I can’t complain. It’s nice that Samuel can get over such a bad cold on his own. We haven’t even needed to use any oxygen to help keep his stats up. That’s a pretty amazing thing for kids like him and says a lot about how healthy he is.
Pray that he’ll feel better soon, though!
Love,
The Jewkes
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