On July 18th, Hailey had a hard time sleeping and kept waking me up. However, at 1:00am when I went to put Hailey back to bed (I think she had a nightmare or just needed the covers straighten), Hannah was wheezing pretty bad. She wasn't sick at all the day and didn't have a fever at that point. She was just wheezing. So, I took her outside in the kinda cool air, called the on-call doctor but never got a hold of him, and just waited it out. Within a half hour she stopped, I gave her water, and she fell back to sleep. I had a hard time sleeping because I was still trying to listen for her but the rest of the night everything was fine.
The next morning, everything was normal. There was no temperature, no wheezing or coughing, and she was eating fine. Everyone was ready for the day, so I took my turn and hopped in the shower. While I was finishing up, Nathan handed me Hannah to wash off before she convulsed twice and throw up. She kept falling asleep in my arms, so we were quick and I handed her back to Nate to get dressed. Nate put her back to sleep in her crib but after I was dressed I got her up so I could hold and monitor her better.
She convulsed 4 times within a 5 minute span. Then went into her seizure. Her last seizure was at the beginning of May right after we went to Primary Children's Hospital. The doctor asked us to video tape Hannah's seizure if we ever get the chance. So I sat with Hannah while Nathan recorded it. It lasted slightly over one minute. She was foamy at the mouth and breathing was very labored. Her whole body twitched (especially her eyes) expect for her legs due to the way she was laying on me. I wanted to cry the whole time because there was nothing I could do for her. Twenty minutes later, Hannah stopped breathing and her eyes started twitching. This lasted for 20 seconds but was very scary to feel Hannah going from over movement with the first seizure, then feeling her struggling to breathe in between the seizure, then feeling no movement at all. We gave her an extra dose of Keppra and some frankincense on the black of her neck.
She slept for a while and nothing to exciting happened the rest of the day. After her nap, I put some more frankincense on her feet. One interesting that did happen was the Hannah walked the same day she had her seizure. It generally takes Hannah two days before she has enough balance to walk and it's a week before she's "normal" (not fussy, crying, sleeping, and clinging). I think that frankincense helped Hannah recover faster.
Since we are on the topic on Hannah (and I'm writing about a seizure that happened almost a month ago) I just wanted to catch you up on what we are starting with Hannah now.
About a week after the Hannah seizure, she stopped sleeping in her crib, we trying letting her cry it out (she won), rarely we got luckily in transferring a sleeping baby, and most often I had to sleep with Hannah. Two weeks of a very frustrating situation, I remember a friend of my took her baby (younger than Hannah) to a chiropractor because she wasn't sleeping and she has been dropped by "helpful" siblings a lot. So I called her doctor office and tried to figure out if I need to have a referral due to healthy connections with Medicaid. The nurse said I was fine and then I asked her for a chiropractor that works with children. She referred my to Country Chiropractic and I really like them so far.
We went over Hannah's blood test results from her first seizure (Oct 2010) and found that Hannah had high gluclose levels and low calcium levels and even had a UTI that I was not aware of.
From wikipedia "Calcium is an important component of a
healthy diet and a
mineral necessary for life. The
National Osteoporosis Foundation says, "Calcium plays an important role in building stronger, denser bones early in life and keeping bones strong and healthy later in life." Approximately 99 percent of the body's calcium is stored in the bones and teeth.
[20] The rest of the calcium in the body has other important uses, such as some exocytosis, especially neurotransmitter release, and muscle contraction."
Since calcium helps with calming the brain active and muscle contraction, Hannah is put on some supplements. Also Hannah's 1st and 2nd vertebrates (at the base of the head) are out of sync and will get adjusted. She's very hopeful that we can balance Hannah body enough to stop the seizures. I feel like it is worth the try and I'm learning a lot.
So far we have had one get-to-know-you appointment, and one adjustment. I'll try to blog about these updates as well so I can better understand Hannah's treatment and can record what was done and the improvements we see.
