Frightening and Horrible Seizure

On 12/15/08 my sweet 7 year old daughter had another seizure. We gave her the 20mg Diastat and began to monitor her. The medicine didn’t work, as usual so we called and had them send an ambulance. Once in the ambulance they hooked her up to an IV. She was still seizing so they gave her 10mg of Ativan while on our way to the hospital. The hospital is 15 minutes from our house. Once there they got her settled and the doctor came in. Still she was seizing so they gave her another 2mg of Ativan. My poor little girl 32mg of medicine and it still wasn’t stopping. Finally after 2 hours she seemed to be coming out of it and ready to drift off to sleep like she usually does. But no, not this time. Then her arms,legs and head would twitch. Something she has never done before. This lasted another hour before it she finally fell asleep but with fast breathing as though she had been running a marathon. I was so worried and was wondering if they would have to transfer her to children’s hopsital. They did a chest xray to make sure no pneumonia. That was clear. They did a CT scan to make sure nothing other than what we already knew was wrong. It too was fine. Eventually two hours later she drowsilly woke up and we finally got to take our sleepy girl home. Luckily she already had a follow up appointment with the neuro the next day. But what would we be told?

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