seizure today =(

dan has had gastro, with lots of vomiting (but nothing else thank goodness, no diarrhoea or much unwellness). last night was a bit icky already with the usual vomiting every few hours (and once, a terrible moment where he choked on it, and screamed and gagged and coughed and cried).

and then 5 hours after his last chuckup, at 7am, he had a seizure, which woke me up. eyes rolled back, unresponsive, limbs and body jerking. it only lasted a minute, but then he was unconscious after. we didn't know what to do, but called the ambulance anyway, while i tried to wake him..

anyway, he eventually started to wake up. then we went off to hosp, and spent the morning getting checked out. dan cried and screamed blue murder at every single affront, even a stethoscope on his body, or a nurse's holding his hand still, or a blood pressure cuff. and then of course, the needles to take blood... that wasn't pretty.
i boobed him as much as possible throughout those moments, but he was still hysterical and sobbing, kicking and flailing...

then we lay around for ages very comfy in a trolley bed, watching kids videos on a personal TV. surprisingly comfy and fun, and he was happy, though, it twinges in a mother's heart to see hospital stick-ons all over your baby's little body..
DH was with us the whole time, thank goodness, cos last night i was gastroey too so he had arranged to take today off anyway.

got home at 2pm, so were there for 6 hours. they couldn't find anything that might have caused it apart from maybe a short and sudden fever in those 5 hours, even though he hadn't had a temp at all and didn't feel warm when he seized. but he's getting an EEG in 2 weeks too.

i keep wondering if today was unnecessary. especially all those many long moments of affront. but surely i needed to find out if there was some underlying cause? and he's never had a seizure before?

and i've wondered all day how to tell family without them imploding. MIL's friend's baby had a seizure recently, and she considered it a near-death experience. i know now that it's v common, but i'm going to have to convey that to her somehow.
and she's always on me to take his temp every hour while he's ill, even though i can tell he's not warm and when i do the reading is normal. i just feel like somehow she'll blame me for not knowing his temp spiked at 6am overnight...

also - wow - if we weren't cosleeping, i'd never have known he was having a seizure! it was silent, and then he fell into a deep sleep...
i'm so glad i sleep right next to him, squashed off to one side...

what a day...