9/27 Unexpected trip to the ER

Yesterday turned out to be very eventful for us, unfortunately. Lexi, Riley's nanny, let me know that Riley's school had called to have her come pick Riley up from school. He had gotten sick. When I got home from work, Riley got sick again. When Joel got here, again. After the last time, Riley began seizing. I called Dr. Steph to let her know. She told us if he had another seizure, we would need to go to the ER to have Riley's electro lights checked. The first seizure only lasted about 4 minutes. As soon as I got off the phone with the doctor, a second seizure had started. We decided to drive Riley to the ER ourselves, something we had never done during a seizure, but since the seizure was localized to his face, we thought we would be okay to drive him.

On the car ride to the ER, a third seizure started. This seizure lasted longer than any Riley has ever had, somewhere between 25-30 minutes. It appeared to stop for a brief minute then started again and he was still seizing when Joel carried him in to the ER. After getting an IV and some meds in, the seizure finally stopped. This was probably our quickest trip ever to the ER. Riley recovered very quickly and was up walking around the ER in no time at all while we waited on blood tests to come back. Just like when we were at Duke, Riley quickly had all leads, wires, blood pressure cuff, etc. off his body in no time. We were able to leave and make it home before 11pm. Riley had a good night's sleep, but had a fever when he woke up this morning and got sick again after having his morning meds. Finally, he was able to keep down some dry cereal, water and some meds.

He was very tired today, but other than that, he was good. That is, until we got home from work. He threw up again tonight, after trying to make up for all the food he missed yesterday and today. We are hoping this is just a 48 hour bug or something since everything else seems to be fine. Hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day