It's been awhile since I posted anything but we have been enjoying summer and all that includes-swimming, swinging, out of town appointments, the lake, and vacation at the beach!!!
We went on vacation to Destin, Fl in July. This was our first time to go there and the first time for both boys to go to the beach. The weather was perfect all week!!! Christian enjoyed the waves crashing on him and just relaxing (i pretty much took a therapy break and so did Christian:) Bryant enjoyed playing in the sand until he put it in his mouth and eyes. Woops!
On our way home we took a wrong turn for some reason and ended up traveling towards Alabama instead of Mississippi. This was quite annoying at first due to the fact that our children don't travel well and this wrong turn was going to add on an hour probably. Well there was really no turning back so we continued on. About 3 hours in to the drive we stopped at Wal-Mart to feed the boys and I noticed Christian was acting funny --a.k.a having a seizure. We gave him his medicine that should stop it. We started back on the road thinking that the seizure had stopped. Ten minutes down the road we noticed he was still having a seizure. The closest hospital was about 5 minutes down the road-thank goodness!!! We called ahead to notify them we were coming. Well long story short--that got the seizure stopped and then flew Christian on to Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Of course, while in the first hospital there was plenty to watch as we waited for the helicopter. There was the drunk guy who kept asking for his drugs and wondering around (very amusing) and the older lady that just wanted to know what was wrong with Christian. I replied "he has seizures". Then she said "no, what's really wrong". I assumed she wanted the answer "he has cerebral palsy". Oh man!! The staff there was great! It was rather odd to watch them wheel Christian away and watch them load him in to the ambulance while we had to drive to the hospital.
Children's took great care of him. We stayed overnight for observation and left the next day. My night however was a buffet of sleeping arrangements. There were only chairs in his room and the waiting room so I slept on the linoleum floor for a while then climbed in bed with Christian then tried the chair. None of those options worked for long. So I finally laid myself down in the hospital lobby couch. It was so comfy till 5:30ish when security woke me up. He says" ma'am you can't sleep down here". woops! I was just testing out all of my options from 12:30-6am:))
And so I say all of that to say this--I'm glad we made that wrong turn which led us to the right hospital!! God knows how to make a detour in to a correct destination!!
