Darling - Continued

We were told after Darling's first seizure that her one might be all that happens ... but if there were more, they'd want to do some testing. Also, Darling's chances of having more if she had a second febrile seizure would greatly increase.


She remained well and seizure-free from that one febrile seizure at 11 months old (with a runny nose and low-grade fever) until she was 16 months old when she had another - again, while we were all sleeping. 


We went through the motions:

- suppository fever-reducer we'd been given back in May for a situation like this

- calling emergency

- trying to cool her down

- putting our dogs away for when "strangers" (EMTs) arrive

- unlocking the doors


Random note of great appreciation to all EMTs for the work you do and the things you walk into... Like a mom on the floor sitting in a dog bed in the kitchen in just a t-shirt and her underwear rocking her baby and asking that little seizing munchkin to "please wake up"


Darling had vaccines the day before, so she likely had a fever and seizure because of that. Please know I'm not blaming the vaccines. Vaccines can cause fevers and fevers can cause febrile seizures. I know this. I accept this. Everyone has an opinion on this and form your own, but this is our standpoint on it. Our thinking is a fever-induced seizure in reaction to a vaccine is better(? easier?) than what her body would endure (higher fever included) if she got the actual disease we're trying to protect her from. So, we try to space Darling's vaccines out as much as possible and do the minimum for her to be covered because of this so we can carefully monitor her and not overwhelm her system either. We try to prepare ourselves. We try to be prepared...


I wrote: "I guess this will just be the thing now to expect with fevers. I'm going to be on edge every time you might even possibly get sick or even feverish with teething?"

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