Re: Bad evening

[Guest guest]

Poor you! Sounds awful and very scary. Hope you can find time for a relaxing

evening this week.

Helen

[Guest guest]

What a horrible experience Annelise - I'm glad he's okay. I sympathise

totally - Bethany had a febrile convulsion when she was two, was one of the

worst moments of my life, although I recognised what it was I hadn't

expected her to stop breathing and turn blue. I phoned an ambulance in

absolute blind panic - really thinking that she was going to die before they

got to us.

Fortunately she was fine after a night in hospital - still upsets me to

think about it, four years later though!

Hannah, 27

Mum to Bethany 6 1/2, Lawrence nearly 5, Verity 2 1/2 and Baby due Feb 2001

< Next I heard Robin was screaming for me - " You've been on the course WHAT

DO I DO " - one eye-rolling, blue-tinged son. I took Tim and sent Robin next

door for the paramedic - gentle shaking and patting and he came to but oh my

God it was awful. Jim the ambulance man took Tim and sent us to sit down,

checking Tim over and asking us what had happened - by then Tim, although

still very waxy-skinned and subdued (to put it mildly - hardly moving a

muscle) had regained pinkiness in his lips and responded to talking and

finger clicking. Well, to cut to the chase, we got to the North Hants

Hospital at 7 pm and got home again at 11.55. Robin came back for a bag for

me mid-evening, so he had to brave the storms twice! (wasted journey !>

[Guest guest]

> What a horrible experience Annelise - I'm glad he's okay. I

sympathise

> totally - Bethany had a febrile convulsion when she was two,

was one of the

> worst moments of my life,

Hannah - you just posted exactly what I was going to post! Sam

had a febrile convulsion at 15 months and it was totally terrifying!

Annelise - do hope you get your nice night in soon - it definately

sounds like you deserve it!

Caroline

x

[Guest guest]

Horrible experience, Anneliese. Hope all is well now.

Alison

BUt back to the bad evening.... DS had been whingey on and off, just a bit

below par really all week, so I asked DH to give him a cuddle while I went to

scramble an egg for his tea after he'd had a few sips of milk. Lo and behold DS

started to yell. Next I heard Robin was screaming for me - " You've been on the

course WHAT DO I DO " - one eye-rolling, blue-tinged son. I took Tim and sent

Robin next door for the paramedic - gentle shaking and patting and he came to

but oh my God it was awful. Jim the ambulance man took Tim and sent us to sit

down, checking Tim over and asking us what had happened - by then Tim, although

still very waxy-skinned and subdued (to put it mildly - hardly moving a muscle)

had regained pinkiness in his lips and responded to talking and finger clicking.

Well, to cut to the chase, we got to the North Hants Hospital at 7 pm and got

home again at 11.55. Robin came back for a bag for me mid-evening, so he had to

brave the storms twice! (wasted journey as it turned out but if we'd waited to

see the registrar and she'd wanted to keep Tim in then my nightie wouldn't have

been with me till one in the morning....) We were the fifth admission within

half an hour that evening so it was a very long wait (with a baby who was

clearly fine, of course...) but at least both the house officer and the

registrar spent a long time hearing what we had to say and examining Tim so we

weren't fobbed off at all. It transpired that Robin had by sheer bad luck

chosed precisely the wrong moment to turn Tim over to rub his back in

mid-scream, so he failed to draw the gasping breath for the next scream and

passed out. Although he was unconscious for only a minute I think it was quite

some time before he was himself again - even half an hour later when he was

trying to act normally (wander round waving his socks and singing) he kept

falling over. So of course we had to get him checked out.

The reaction really set in for me on Monday - I was totally useless and shaky

at work and absolutely shattered when I got home. I know this was a really

trivial incident but it gave us all a very nasty shock. I hope it's not the

shape of things to come - last thing I want is a terrible twos breath holder!

But in the end the only real casualty was Tim's Winnie the Pooh hat which I

couldn't find when we went to nursery on Monday - and even that was retrieved

from the hospital lost property office by DH yesterday.

A learning experience all round....

Anneliese (part-time) SAHM to Baby Tim (18/9/99), member, Alton, Bordon and

district branch

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[Guest guest]

Anneliese, just reading your post brought back nasty memories of DS having a

febrile convulsion my arms a week after his first birthday and I was pg with

DD.

Glad everything OK now but lots of hugs to you.

[Guest guest]

Anneliese,

>> Next I heard Robin was screaming for me - " You've been on the course

WHAT DO I DO " - one eye->> rolling, blue-tinged son.

You poor thing, and Tim is such a cutey too (who were those visitors??)

So glad all turned out OK, my prayers are with you all

[Guest guest]

one eye-rolling, blue-tinged son

How frightening, Anneliese. I know exactly what you were feeling because my

DS2 passed out at toddler group once after banging heads with another child.

It's just terrifying isn't it?

Lynda

SAHM to (7), (5), Fraser (3), Callum (15/5/00)

Newsletter editor, Mid-Northumberland Branch

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[Guest guest]

> Anneliese writes BUt back to the bad evening......

What a worry for you.

takes me back to Eleanor`s first first febrile convulsion..they look so

*different. Such a shock. IIRC she was not really back to herself for

several days afterwards.

(She had them occasionally & grew out of them as a toddler and is now a

happy healthy 9 yo, currently terrorising her 6yo sister round the house, oh

well better go and interfere ;-)

Lots of love & hugs

Barbara