Seizure

Monday morning literally 5 minutes before the bus came for Jack he had a seizure.  He was waiting by the door with his coat, hat, and gloves on and I was in the kitchen gathering his lunch and bookbag.  I don't know how or exactly when the seizure started.  I heard teeth grinding sounds and thought to myself "uh-oh." and when I walked around the corner I saw a very pale, blue-lipped Jack in the middle of a seizure.  I froze and couldn't make my mind work.  After what felt like forever I took Jack's coat off and turned him on his side.  I was working on his belt and pants (had diastat on hand) and he came to and looked around and very weakly whispered "bus" and I gently told him "Jack, you had a seizure and you're probably feeling sick"  I did not need to use the diastat this time.

I grabbed the phone and called Jason, then I called the school, and then finally I remembered the bus!  I ran out to the bus and explained to the driver that Jack had a seizure and I would be keeping him home from school.  I ran back inside and assessed Jack.  He was really out of it with big pupils and very pale.  I then remembered I had to call his TSS (who meets him at school every day) and by the time I was done talking to her Jack was fast asleep on the living room floor.  This one hit him pretty hard.  He slept from 8:30 am until after 12:00.  When he woke up he was confused and disoriented and very lethargic.  He perked up a bit and ate a late lunch but was very quiet and his speech was slurred (he had a hard time getting his consonants out)...then, by 3:00 pm he totally perked up and was back to being Jack!  He was dancing and singing, hopping around and requested to eat like 5 times before dinner!

He's been fine ever since...no other seizures that we've noticed.

So this isn't the first time and it certainly won't be the last -- but boy do seizures have a way of knocking me for a loop.  It's like we go just long enough for them to creep to the middle-to-back part of my mind, almost a distant memory then WHAM -- NOPE, no relaxing for you!  I know it's out of my control -- and that's probably the hardest thing.  I had a really hard time sending him on the bus yesterday but I know I can't keep him home just in case...ya know?  So he's fine, and I am too -- but I don't like these sneak attacks.

Snowed In! Blizzard of 2010!! SNOW DAY!!!

Two storms in one week..well actually two storms in two days!  Our first snow storm brought us around 15 inches...and the blizzard brought us about 20 inches!  Too much snow, but it is breath taking and beautiful!

The entire family had a snow day yesterday and school is canceled again today.  Jason went back to work today.  We did take the kids out for a little (very short) while yesterday and they loved it!

We baked a banana cake (which turned out YUMMY), played with blocks, colored with markers, and played dress up...well, Morgan dressed up and we all told her how pretty and cute she looked (at her request) lol!

Today we'll finish making Valentines for Jack's classmates!  I am not sure if they'll have school tomorrow or not but we want to be prepared just in case.  I have no idea how the bus will operate in this weather (the wheel chair lift) seeing as he has almost no options to pull over and there is snow every where!  Well for today no worries -- because it's another SNOW DAY! (sorry Jason, we miss you today!!!)

Funny

Sometimes I let Morgan play with my iPhone... And she leaves little
clues as to what she's been doing! She found the camera and took a
picture of her foot!! lol

Yes we did!

We braved walmart the day of an impending snow storm AND we made it
out unscathed! The kids were so patient and tolerated waiting! I am
one happy and proud momma :)

Jack "writes" his name!

We have a two hour delay this morning because of snow...Jack is anxious to get to school so to pass the time he wanted to play "drawing" and write his name!

In this video you can hear him say "Write ah name!" and I think he gets a few letters...normally he's been able to say "J, A, C" which is amazing -- and so close!  He can recognize the letters of his name in uppercase letters as well.  It's the little things when added together really show his amazing progress this school year!

Here is the short video clip (he hardly ever stays still either, lol) enjoy and hope you all have a great week!




Edited to add Jack is playing with the Scribble and Write from Leapfrog