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Friday, September 18, 2009

Madison had a seizure

Madison had a seizure at day care.

She was sitting at the table eating lunch when her entire body turned blue and she started shaking. She wouldn't respond to my voice or me touching her, so I called for the director to come see her. She walked in the room and told me to take her the emergency room. Madison has had a fever since last Thursday that had been fluctuating throughout the day. Mornings would be great, afternoons would be bad, then nights were fine.

Well we don't have insurance so I drove her to the Lonestar Circle of Care clinic here in Round Rock. I walked in, bawling my eyes out holding a blue baby who's eyes were rolling in the back of her head and they called their triage nurse. She took her temp and it was 104.5, she told me 'She needs to go to Dells children hospital', she gave me a map but I wasn't in any mind state to drive, I was hysterical just crying. I had called Tim's mother on the way to LSCoC, and when I walked out her and michelle were there, so she drove Madison and I quickly down there.

We got there, they brought her back and her temp was 104.9, and still climbing. They gave her motrin and took her BPM, it was 180. They wanted to run three tests on her to rule out certain things it could be. A flu test, that was negative, a xray to rule out pneumonia, it wasn't, then a catheter to see if it was a bladder infection. It wasn't.

The doctor said it is most likely a virus that she can't shake. He said the seizure she had at school was probably caused by the fact that her fever peaked so quickly to 104.5 from 100s. We've been instructed that if it happens again this weekend, to bring her back in to be admitted to the hospital.


While writing that, ^^^, Madison woke up and her fever has gone back up from the low 100s, back up to 102.6...

Edited to add: They basically don't know what is wrong with her, and the doctor admitted that. He said that they can't tell what it is.

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