Scary Friday

Now that I have a few days of distance, it's easier for me to write about what happened on Friday night. Around 10PM, Anna called me into Aidan's room, where he was obviously suffering from an extremely severe seizure. He was foaming from his mouth, his breathing was irregular, his body was shaking and twitching, and he was not approachable. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, so we called 911 right away. A few minutes later we had paramedics and police in our house, and they took Aidan and Anna in the ambulance to the hospital. They sedated him and put him on an IV. I woke up Chloe and we drove to the hospital to meet up with Anna and Aidan. By the time we arrived Aidan was sleeping peacefully. After consultation with the doctor, Chloe and I went back home, and Anna stayed with Aidan. He woke up around 5AM on Saturday morning, at which time Chloe and I picked him and Anna up and brought them back home. Aidan was fine again, and we ended up having a great weekend (more about that in a later post). However, this was a stark reminder how quickly the seeming normalcy of our life can be interrupted by really scary events. There was no specific cause to Aidan's severe seizure. Let's hope it'll be a while until something like this happens again!