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- mg334
Don't know how many of you parents have ever experienced anything like this, but my 21 month old son had a febrile seizure on Sunday - it's a type of seizure from a fever spiking too high (not necessarily the high temp but how fast it rises).
He was laying on my chest in a chair under a blanket, still tired after his nap. All of a sudden his legs started shaking, I held him up and told my wife and sister in law something's wrong with him, and as soon as I held him up his eyes were rolling back in his head, lips turned purple, face turned blue, foaming at the month, and body shaking uncontrollably. Holy shit it was the most frightening moment I've ever gone through in my life. Sister in law knew he was having a seizure, both she and my wife were frantic. I was frantic calling 911. Not knowing what was happening we were literally thinking he was dying in front of us.
Within a couple minutes he started to come out of it, and the paramedics were there in about eight minutes. Hospital was just down the street, so took him to the emergency room, his temp was nearly 104 and they got it down to 98 within a couple hours. Turned out he had a bad ear infection and just wasn't showing any signs of it bothering him to us. Trying to get the infection to go away, keeping his fever down.
That was the scariest thing I've ever gone through. Any of those aspects of a seizure on their own would be frightening enough, but to watch your child do all those things and have no idea what's going on, I hope I never have to experience that again. It was terrifying.
- omg that would freak me out so bad ... I’m glad he’s in good handsmonospaced
- I had a someting like that happen with our almost one year old today. Major infections in ears and throat. Was almost choking. Now on heavy antibiotics alseep..tank02
- ... and ofcourse hope your kid is feeling better man, what a horrible story.tank02
- yikes! Hope he's better soon.fooler
- Jeez, never heard of that before. Sorry you had to go through that. I'm sure it was scary as fuck for all involved.mathinc
- Thanks everyone. :)mg33
- Wonder what someone 80 years ago would have done. Would they be more tempered from feeling the panic you felt. Having access to 911, more knowledge, and lessdeathboy
- experience "letting it ride" with less concern, or maybe monetary investment. I'm slowly coming to except the "old ways" only having a dog. Pukes a littledeathboy
- lots of panic 400 dollar bill. Not too long ago you just lived through shit. Now such a panic fuck to everything. My chic use to pass out in primary schooldeathboy
- no doctor knew why, you just shrug and go oh well. either live or die. I almost wish the world wasnt so easy and monetized that you could have a harder skindeathboy
- culturally just something i think about. your kids fine, tougher than we have been educated to remember. not the last scare you will have.deathboy
- Deathboy, that was why 'back in the old days' the mortality rates for babies and kids are much higher. And why in lower developed countries a lot of babies ...tank02
- ... die from very harmless disaeses. Do some research man.tank02
- @mg33 This is heartbreaking and horrific! So sorry for the little guy and for you & your family to have gone through this nightmare.Krassy
- Best wishes! Hoping for your boy to never have this happen to him ever again.Krassy
- Jesus. As a dad to a 2 year old myself, I can imagine how terrifying that must have been. Hope he's feeling better man.greyandred
- Holy shit, Scary!! Get well soon little buddy!maquito
- Wow, good to hear he's ok - keep it up!martinadolfsson
- good lord that's awful. Earaches are by far the WORST.stoplying
- tank02 it was just a cultural observation on our behavior and reaction to todays stuff that seems foreign because its first world shitdeathboy
- and hopefully give a little comfort that nothing has really changed just our perceptions of it, or how we choose to fight fear with money.deathboy
- My son had this twice when he was 1,5 years old. It's damn scary but I was prepared: I had it too as a kid, it is hereditary.stewart
- the panic of parent (which you obviously are not) over their child in distress is, in no way imaginable, "first world shit" as you put it.monospaced
- you should stick to politics, where your incoherent ramblings, unsubstantiated assumptions and meaningless anecdotes are more fittingmonospaced
- Our daughter just went through 3 days of ~104 fever, we were scared this might happen and fortunately it didn't. Then the Roseola broke out.ben_
- Hope that's the last of it for your little guy, pretty unnerving. Unless of course you're deathboy, who ain't phased by a seizure.ben_