Every single time I do this, I jinx myself. Every.single.time.
I posted this layout about Elizabeth online today.
And, I previewed it with this: "Every layout I make about Elizabeth turns out sappy. Sigh. It's just so hard to feel anything but gratitude that she's healthy again."
Jinx!
Libby woke up from her nap yesterday and went right to the couch. And I noticed something funny about one of her eyes. I asked her to sit up and look at me and whoa. One eyelid wasn't open very much. It wasn't swollen, it wasn't red, just drooping severely. All kinds of things went through my mind and I immediately had her smile and raise both hands and wiggle both feet - everything was normal - no lopsidedness anywhere else. I called her neurologist and was told that she would call me right back. Um.............right. An hour later and nothing. And Lib still wasn't off the couch. When I asked her how she felt, she said her legs were very shaky and she didn't feel like walking. When I made her get up to walk around, she was grabbing onto the sides of furniture. Ugh. I called the peds office and, after talking to the doctor, the nurse said that her symptoms were indicative of a stroke. :O
I (wisely) opted not to call 911 because she seemed perfectly fine except for those 2 symptoms. My gut just really told me that it wasn't a stroke, anyway, but we did race to the ped's office. After a very thorough neruo exam, they found no evidence of a stroke or anything else wrong except her eyelid and some fatigue. We had some bloodwork done and came home and waited for the ped's office to call back.
And all this time and on the way home, Elizabeth was becoming more and more animated and her eyelid was getting a bit better and her legs didn't hurt anymore and then it hit me. With the exception of the eyelid issue, it was exactly how she is AFTER a seizure. So, I called the doctor back and she and I went through all of her previous bloodwork and we also mentioned that Elizabeth has gained 4 pounds since she was put on meds. And, I didn't put all of this together right away, but Libby has had a lot more headaches lately and just not felt as well as she had been feeling. So, what we're hoping is that Libby has now outgrown her current anti-convulsant dose and is not getting enough meds daily for her weight. The ped and I both really think that Libby must have had a seizure during her nap because her meds are now too low. That would also explain why she's getting headaches again.
So, jinx on me. And a big huge sigh of relief. Her eyelid was still drooping when she went to bed, so I'm still concerned about that, though. I'll wait and see how it looks this morning when she wakes up. Her bloodwork results come by noon today and we're off to see the neruo on Monday.
Man, kids are never boring, are they? :p