Wait, I was in Frankfurt Airport two weeks ago and the countryside was all covered in snow…
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Oooh, just read this. Congratulations!!!
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In December we had 1 week of cold. Other than that winter has been 10-20 degrees too warm all over the continent…. Ski resorts in the alps are closing down … as I said bees are flying and I don’t know what would be worse if cold returns or if it stays as warm?
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Congratulations on the both your family events. Hoping your little one now gets to do lots of little kid things 
Also rsv is mean stuff. Having that on top of the surgery must have been awful. I am glad you are all healthy now.
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Sounds like some hard months, but the end result is promising! Best wishes for your little girl, and congrats to your family for your coming addition!
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Had to take an internet break for a couple of months, or the grad degree was never going to get done, but now it is! So it’s back to some more creative lesson planning and gaming. On the lesson plan end of things, we’re about to start designing tattoos in the English classes. And for games, I busted open my 18 month old copy of Gloomhaven. It fits ‘neatly’ into 2/3rds of the Giant American Gaming Table so far, which means I can leave it set up between sessions.
Minor spoilers if you zoom in and squint, I guess?
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Congrats. And that is a heartwarming story, even if you had to go through many troubles to get there!
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I’ve come down with something, but it’s testing negative for COVID at least. Spent almost the whole day asleep and headachey. Outside, the wind howls in the darkness. Still, I plan to brave it and buy some more laundry liquid.
@Acacia that sounds extremely tough for all of you. I’m glad you’ve come out the other side now.
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Today has been the most stressful and terrifying day of my life.
My 5 year-old daughter had seizure this morning. Neither my wife nor I were in the room when it happened, my brother-in-law happened to walk in to say good morning and noticed something was wrong.
When we got to her she was breathing, but lethargic and not really responsive so we called 911 and took her to a local ER. She had multiple seizures in ER and at this point is sedated and on ventilation.
They transferred us to a local children’s hospital–thankfully a really good one–and so far she’s breathing better and all her vitals are good.
But this is all so sudden, she’s never had seizures before and was fine like, 10 minutes before my brother-in-law got us. We’re just here, waiting for answers and it’s all so scary and terrifying.
She’s my baby and it’s so hard seeing her like this. I don’t normally talk about things but I’ve been trying to not bottle things up and writing about this and talking to people has helped a bit so far, even if it makes a part of me very uncomfortably.
This is not how I expected to be spending my Saturday.
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Jesus wept, man, all the best to you and your family. I know that fear and that stress, and believe me, talking about it helps. Even if there’s no one you feel comfortable talking to, just out loud to yourself helps. It brings it out of the dark into the light, where you can confront it and manage it.
Stay strong, all of you.
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Oh God, I am so sorry. Best wishes to your little girl, you, and your family. Hopefully the doctors can figure out what is going on.
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Thank you. So far her blood work and CT scan have been clean. Her vitals are all strong and she’s medically stable.
At this point we’re mostly waiting for her MRI, which isn’t scheduled until tomorrow afternoon. Until then she’s going to stay sedated and on ventilation, which will mean it will be at least a 1.5 days w/o her being conscious and communicative. She’s normally incredibly talkative, the silence is difficult.
Ideally this is some freak one-time thing, but mostly I’m trying not to scare myself with thoughts of cancer or some other degenerative disease. Just hoping this is something we can treat and manage.
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I am so sorry. That really sucks.
I’ll try to send some extra warm and hopeful thoughts in your direction! Fingers crossed and all that!
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Oh my God, so sorry you and her, and all the family, have to go through all this. Here’s to a prompt recovery.
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Sorry to hear this. Hope she comes through ok
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Take care. Love to you all
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That sounds absolutely terrifying! I hope you get some answers soon and that those answers are good ones.
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It’s the most terrified I’ve even been.
It’s just triggered my anxiety and all my worst fears. I’ve layed in bed countless nights scared of basically this situation.
So my brain is constantly going to all the darkest places even though I know the most likely answers are manageable and non-life threatening.
And it’s even harder now that I’m alone in the hospital room, at almost 2 am, exhausted and unable to sleep.
My wife is the full-time caretaker for her bedridden mom, who has dementia, so she can’t even be here overnight which is hard for her too.
Did just get some good news that the EEG has shown no signs of seizure activity since she’s been here. So they’re changing up her sedative.
Really hoping that MRI is clear tomorrow and assuages my worst fears.
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What are the likely answers, if you feel like typing and can’t sleep?
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I actually ended up opening my notes app and writing a journal. It really helped and I eventually crashed.
The most likely outcome is that she has epilepsy and she’ll just have to have medication and probably more seizures in the future and she’ll probably eventually outgrow it.
Apparently seizures aren’t generally life-threatening unless they go on for more than 5 minutes or there’s multiple without the person fully regaining consciousness in between.
She definitely was the latter, but we, the ER and the hospital did everything right in that case, so she should have avoided any permanent damage.
Another possibility is she has diabetes and we didn’t know. Her blood sugar was low, though not considered low enough to generally cause seizures. And there were some ketones in her urine. Though I assume that would have shown up in some of the blood work they have done.
Got some good news last night and when I woke up. She hasn’t shown any signs of seizure on her EEG since she’s been here, so they changed her sedative over night to one that wasn’t an anti seizure medicine and still no seizures.
They moved her MRI up by 4 hours, and should go in an hour and they plan to take her off ventilaton after the MRI is complete.
I had to help the nurses settle her this morning because she was trying to pull the breathing tube out. She was fighting hard, which is good.
It was good to see movement out of her, even if she wasn’t fully awake.
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