About a week and a half ago, Megan threw up (all over me and my mom) out of the blue. We were watching a parade in a nearby town... the town we doctor in, and she threw up on us, so we made a pit stop at the hospital rather than the fair as planned. They didn't find anything wrong, and by the time we got there she was acting fine. No fever, no nuthin', so we went home. She was fine till tonight. We (the kids and I) were at my parents' house and I went outside to get my homework and my mom was going to bathe the kids. When I got back, my dad is sitting by Megan on the living room floor holding a towel catching puke. NICE! So she finish that nastiness, and I touched her and she was hot. She let it get to 100.8 under arm. So I got some Motrin in her and she sat on my lap for a bit, then took a bath, cuddled with me some more and then was off in her own happy world. I don't know what to think of this! She is going to the doc. tomorrow just to check her... and I will be checking on her often tonight, but she is acting fine. So, prayers for "just a fluke puke" would be great. (and if you say that out loud, it sounds funny... fluke puke! sorry... I am running on not much sleep!)

Any other ideas?

Prayers going up. Man that is scary. I just read your reply in the roll call and have been thinking of you through all the latest seizures with Megs being so similar to Becca's case.
Great to hear she's taking steps more!!!!

I will write more later, but pray now. Off to new NS today!

xo
Kathleen

I forgot to mention she seemed a little shaky after the vomitting. Nothing that made me run for the diastat, but weird... I am sending her to the dr. with her dad today. I am going to type a little thing for him to take with otherwise he won't know what happened and he won't ask the right questions. I just can't take off work... And I'll make him stop by and let me know how it went.

Last year at about this time she had a series of nasty seizures that got us stuck in the hospital and she totally regressed. It took her a while to figure out how to sit up, crawl and cruise furniture again... and her 2nd shuntaversary is coming up in about a week and a half.

Hopefully she isn't building to something big....

I'm wondering if she could have had a/some simple partial sz(s). Mine look like nothing to most people, and even my parents said all they saw was my panic for the first 20 years or so. Now they'll tell you I pale, my eyes dilate, my voice takes on a strained quality to it, etc. We didn't even know what the dang things were 'til I was 25! As I'm sure you recall from my posts about them, too, my temp is affected and will just return to normal in about 24-36 hours.



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WL

Oh heather I am so sorry, poor megs. Maybe its a normal virus, I'll pray for that, its always so nice to have a normal kid illness every now and then huh? Lizard has a good point, temp is affected by seizures, Hailie always runs one during and after her partials, in addition she always throws up at some point during or after a seizure, hopefully not though, seizures are so icky. Keep us posted, I can relate to typing a page of info for dad to give to doc, in fact I have a similar concern in my update on #64. My husband is going to have to take over for a while in the medical procedures area. My new job will prevent me from any time off until after january, as scary as that sounds, dad needs to learn too. He's a bit clueless right now but will enjoy his upcoming crash courses when Hailie has her 1 to 3 more surgeries within the next month or so. Hang in there, sending lots of prayers and hugs for meg and mom. Keep us posted and take care.
becki

WE HAVE A SORE THROAT! I have never been so happy for an illness! She is on antibiotic... they didn't think it was strep, but he said that if Megan "tells" us she doesn't feel good, it is time to treat it. I know that Megan has a temp after a seizure, but she also has had seizure from her temp rising too quickly. I think she may have had a very small simple partial right after the vomit... I didn't see her right before, but my dad is pretty sure she went from playing to puking... But after she was twitchy/shakey. And she was pretty sober for 20-30 min after so it is possible. I was dreading "the big one" so I checked her a lot last night... and I am SO exhausted. Keeping up with my kiddos at work today was kinda hard. She is acting much better today though. Chris stayed home with her today and then when I got home to be with her he went to work. She took a 4 hour nap this afternoon and when she woke up she was much happier. She isn't real interested in food, but that's ok cause she is thirsty. I don't mind the food thing as long as she is staying hydrated.

Thanks for the support.

Good, good. . . what a relief!

Those dang seizures. I think I got the school a little too worried as they let me know about every little thing now. Ah well.

We started lamictal last night. It will take 3-4 months to get up on that and off keppra. ugh.

I find it odd that both neuros we have seen have mentioned topomax and trileptal, but have not recommended either for Becca - and Megs and her are so similar. This new one said trileptal could be an option, but lamictal was better for Becca. He said he did not want to use topomax on her, but I forget why. Hmmm...

I just hope - whatever it ends up being - that the right one(s) are found so that our girlies will stop their little seizure sisterhood.

We saw the new NS today and liked him a lot. Says she would be a candidate for ETV again down the line if this shunt ever failed. We have a sleep-deprived EEG and and MRI later this month. We'll know more then. No seizures for over a week now, thank God.

Congrats on the new job and going back to school! Sounds like a really busy time your way!

Give that sweet Megan a hug from us. I hope her throat feels better soon, and that her head continues to be fine.

xo
Kathleen

Thanks Kathleen! Our neuro said that the trileptal and topamax are great for the kind of seizures Megs has. I have found that they don't have drastic side effects. She had some mood swings when we worked her dose of topa. up, but about 2 days of the new dose, and she was back to her typical 2 year old self. We don't have any major tests scheduled for anytime soon. Her next MRI is scheduled for June. And we don't have an EEG on the schedule right now, but it might be something we need to do soon if this is the way it's going to be.

Good luck with the new med. We need to get these girls settled down... I don't think our princesses need any more drama than just being a girl!

So we had some more drama. Chris is in charge of getting the kids to daycare on Fridays. So I left for work and thought nothing of it. Then our daycare lady called and said that Megan was sobbing and couldn't sit up and she thought she was either having a seizure or going to very soon. She asked if she should give her diastat. I said yes please do, and then called Chris to go back and get her. I couldn't leave work because if someone isn't there to replace me, it's not like the kids can watch themselves. So he brought her to me to see. She was definetly post ictal, and she had a funky rash on her face, so off to the doc she went. The rash was from the antibiotic she's on, but he didn't think it was an allergic reaction. I am nervous about giving her more because of this rash and the way she was this morning. She was fine yesterday. So she spent the day getting over that. She did bounce back pretty fast. I am tired of this though... I am also thankful for a long weekend. The seizure activity that her daycare lady described to me didn't sound like her normal seizure, so on Tuesday I will be calling her neuro to find out what they want us to do. The doc down here drew Trileptal levels just to check.

Oh, Heather and Megs, so sorry. Is she growing a lot. Hailie is on Trileptal and Lamictal, but she had a lot of breakthroughs on trileptal alone and it was hard for her to maintain theraputic levels. They say stress, anxiety or changes can cause the seizure threshold to lower, maybe shes just getting used to mom's new schedule? Hailie did the same thing when she started school last year, she went through about 2 weeks with increased seizures until she got used to the new schedule, but she was very anxious during that time because she doesn't really like school. Sending lots of prayers and warm wishes for seizure man to go pick on someone else for a while(no kiddos) {{{{{HUGS}}}}}}} Becki and Hailie