Epilepsy Strikes

Yesterday, Thursday, Jan 7, 2011, my daughter awoke me by crying funny over the monitor at about 2:30 am. She was having a seizure. It lasted for longer than 5 minutes, so we gave her the emergency meds. My husband and I had her sleep in bed with us for the rest of the night. At 7 am, she had another seizure for about a minute. Concerned that we will have to go to the ER, I tell my husband to call out of work. I was already taking the day off to take Olivia to the ENT. Of course the boss gives an attitude about both of us taking off (yes we work together). Olivia seems to do well the rest of the day so we got to take her to the appointment. She had some blood work done to test her thyroid levels. It came back normal. At the hospital, I met a family that has a son a little younger than Olivia that has epilepsy. It's nice meeting people going through the same thing you are. Some people just don't understand how difficult it is having a child with epilepsy.