Scariest Day

I've been married for 27 years. I have four grown children. I am Mia(grandmother) to two. I am forty-something(even I don't know for sure). Last night was the scariest night of my life. Our precious baby boy was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He apparently had a seizure. He stopped breathing for approx. 2 minutes or so. The longest moments of my life. At the time we were not sure what was happening -was he choking-having a seizure-what? As my husband was on the phone with 911, our baby was turning blue,then gray. I was crying uncontrollably, begging the operator to"just get them here"(the EMT's). Yes, I did panic! No, I'm not proud of it, yet I make no excuses either. My baby was dying in my arms. Both my husband and I called on the name of our Lord to help us --to help our son to breathe. When he did indeed take a breath, what an amazing moment! Praise the Lord!! It still took me about 10 more min. to get control of myself. Now, I did say I was out of control. When he started making a few noises, I finally began to calm down. I pray that we never experience something like that again. Now that we know a little more about seizures, I hope that we will be a little more prepared next time. CPR - if you don't know it --learn it NOW. It may be too late if you wait. We see the neurologist next week and will have a MRI soon as well. Little man is on seizure meds now and will be indefinitely.We are praying that it will keep him seizure free. When something like this happens, you realize how quickly you can lose someone so precious to you. He was totally fine when he went to sleep -we came close to never seeing him alive again. Never take a single breath for granted. We are not promised tomorrow.

Comments

[sster]

How frightening! Glad he is OK. And GOSH is he gorgeous!

[Chaotic Mom]

Oh, Faith. Your story is bringing flashbacks of what we've been through with our boys. Not exactly the same, but right down to EEGs, MRIs, stopping breathing (from hypoxia after one boy screaming, actually). The gut feeling parents go through these times are just impossible to describe to others.

You are DEFINITELY on my Computer Side Prayer List. And I'm on this thing enough you know you'll be getting quite a few prayers from me. ;)