Sometimes I just don't know what to do with Baby K. Last night he fell (I think) and did one of his usual crying spells where he doesn't breath for a couple of seconds. Only this time he didn't breath for one minute and twenty seconds. His body went completely blue, he passed out, went limp and his eye rolled back into his head. He snapped out of it about five seconds later and started breathing again. When he came to he was very jerky and uncoordinated and was having trouble breathing. I ran next door to my Mom's house and she had me call the pedi. They of course wanted me to go to the ER. So we went and we waited. And waited. And waited some more.
Finally at midnight they called us back and we got to see the doc at 2 AM. The doc ordered a chest x-ray, head CT scan, blood work, EKG and an EEG. Everything came back fine except for his EKG. It showed that he has an abnormal heart rhythym. Apparently it beats normally and then slows down to a certain rate and then starts beating normally again.
All in all, the doc didn't know whether it was a seizure or a breath holding episode. I'm not so sure either, but I do know that it scared the shit out of me. I have never seen a child do that. I mean, K usually holds his breath when he cries, but it's never for more than 15 or 20 seconds. When he turned blue I just felt my heart drop. I was so scared. Just thinking about seeing him like that makes me cry.
Anyhow, he did okay with all of the testing. He cried alot and fought all the way through it, but what more can you expect from a 16 month old? He's been through enough surgeries and hospital stays to know when he doesn't want people touching him. I'll tell you what though, I can go through the rest of my life never seeing another child having to go through a chest x-ray, being detained in that horrible plexiglass tube and be just fine. He sat in the tube with his little arms over his head and screamed and I sat in the room next to it and bawled my eyes out. I know it didn't hurt him, but seeing your baby that upset and knowing you can't do anything is just horrible.
So we finally got admitted at 5 o'clock this morning to the childrens ward for further observation. The didn't really do anything though. They watched his pulse ox till 10 AM and then discharged us. We're supposed to follow up on monday with the pedi. Hopefully we'll have some answers as to what is going on with him sometime soon. They said that the pedi may order a MRI, but they didn't want to do one in the hospital because they would have to sedate him and since he already has had issues with anesthesia they wanted his doctor to order and oversee it.
As for now, i'm gonna go take a nap. I'll update you guys when I have more info. Keep my little man in your thoughts and pray that this was a one time thing and doesn't end up being some kind of seizure.
Oh, and a special thanks to Dy for bringing me clothes and soda to the hospital at 2 AM and hanging with me until he got admitted at 5. Dy, you rock!!
Finally at midnight they called us back and we got to see the doc at 2 AM. The doc ordered a chest x-ray, head CT scan, blood work, EKG and an EEG. Everything came back fine except for his EKG. It showed that he has an abnormal heart rhythym. Apparently it beats normally and then slows down to a certain rate and then starts beating normally again.
All in all, the doc didn't know whether it was a seizure or a breath holding episode. I'm not so sure either, but I do know that it scared the shit out of me. I have never seen a child do that. I mean, K usually holds his breath when he cries, but it's never for more than 15 or 20 seconds. When he turned blue I just felt my heart drop. I was so scared. Just thinking about seeing him like that makes me cry.
Anyhow, he did okay with all of the testing. He cried alot and fought all the way through it, but what more can you expect from a 16 month old? He's been through enough surgeries and hospital stays to know when he doesn't want people touching him. I'll tell you what though, I can go through the rest of my life never seeing another child having to go through a chest x-ray, being detained in that horrible plexiglass tube and be just fine. He sat in the tube with his little arms over his head and screamed and I sat in the room next to it and bawled my eyes out. I know it didn't hurt him, but seeing your baby that upset and knowing you can't do anything is just horrible.
So we finally got admitted at 5 o'clock this morning to the childrens ward for further observation. The didn't really do anything though. They watched his pulse ox till 10 AM and then discharged us. We're supposed to follow up on monday with the pedi. Hopefully we'll have some answers as to what is going on with him sometime soon. They said that the pedi may order a MRI, but they didn't want to do one in the hospital because they would have to sedate him and since he already has had issues with anesthesia they wanted his doctor to order and oversee it.
As for now, i'm gonna go take a nap. I'll update you guys when I have more info. Keep my little man in your thoughts and pray that this was a one time thing and doesn't end up being some kind of seizure.
Oh, and a special thanks to Dy for bringing me clothes and soda to the hospital at 2 AM and hanging with me until he got admitted at 5. Dy, you rock!!
4 Comments:
That is so scary!
OMG Cheryl, what a nightmare! I'm glad to hear you're home now, and hopefully everyone is getting some rest.
My daughter was one to stop breathing rather frequently when she was upset. (Scared the shit out of me the first time.) What I found works well, is blowing gently in their face. Don't know the scientific explanation, but it would get her breating every time. ;o)
Here's to the hope that it was "just" a crying jag.
OMG! I can't even imagine. I hope it turns out to be nothing.
Oh, how scary. I know how hard it is when your baby is sick and they do test on them. I would recomend taking him to a neurologist and a cardiologist. It would be best to get him looked at from both Dr as well.
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