Our Big Scare

Okay, so telling this story still upsets me a bit so I'm going to give the short version of it. Finn went in for his 4 month old shots about 3 weeks ago....the day of the last post. And he was doing fine after the shots. Hence all the cute pictures. However at about 4:30 that afternoon I was on the couch with him laying next to me playing while I folded laundry....he started grunting weird, so I looked over and he was twitching and his eyes were rolled back in his head. He wouldn't respond to me. I panicked. I thought maybe he was having an allergic reaction to one of the shots so I immediately picked him up and huged him to me while I ran and called the pediatrician. Thankfully they were still open, however they told me to hang up with them and immediately call 911. It freaked me out completely, I thought Finn was dying.

So I called 911, they were sending an ambulance to the house. By this time I'm really freaking out, so I call Patrick's office and tell them it's an emergency and I need to talk to him if he's not with a patient. Thank God he was done with patients for the day.....I told him that Finn was twitching and that the pediatrican said to call 911. He pretty much ran out of the office and started driving to the hosptial that second. However, as I was trying to explain to him what Finn was doing....Finn stopped breathing. He was turning blue.......by this time I'm in a full blown panic. I immediately start doing mouth to mouth on him......(I had taken a cpr class last year....thank God) I had to do about 3-4 cycles of it before he finally gasped for air. By this time his body had stopped twitching, but he wouldn't open his eyes very far and he looked like he had just run the chicago marathon. I called Patrick back right away to tell him Finn was breathing, I felt so bad for him no knowing what was going on......it had to be awful (I know). And after what seemed like an eternity the ambulance got there, I ran out with Finn limp in my arms and handed him over to them. They wouldn't let me in the back with him so I sat up front nervously waiting for them to tell me he was okay. I could hear him crying after a bit, and that was wonderful....just knowing he was alive and able to cry.

We got to the hospital (you think ambulances drive fast, but when it's your baby they are working on it seemed like an eternity) They pulled him out on a stretcher (and he had the oxygen mask over his face) it was the sadest moment in my life, seeing that.

They poked and proded him in the emergency room for blood samples and urine. Pretty much they didn't find anything. But they contacted a neurologist and he said that Finn had a grand mall sesiure. They ran a spinal tap (which they didn't let us see-thankfully) and they wanted us to stay overnight for more tests the next day. The first two pictures are of that awful night in the emergency room....

He was really wiped out....after the seisure and all the crying while they tried to take blood. He even had a little baby stint put in his hand for the IV to go.
The next day he had to have an MRI and an EEG done. They wanted to rule out any brain tumors, blood clots or epilepsy. Pretty much Finn was acting himself all night and morning....and even after the tests. (even with not being able to eat for 11 hours...he did so well, he's our little champ).

This is him being prepared for the EEG. They stuck a whole bunch of electrodes to his head and wraped it with gause to keep them there.....he looks like a little wounded civil war soldier....at least that's what we kept saying. He was such a tropper he smiled throughout the whole thing. Even the nurses were surprised he did so well with everything. I keep telling people we have an amazing child....but this proves it!

So, good news. pretty much all the tests came back clear. The neurologist says that he's never seen such a healthy happy baby.....and that we shouldn't worry about him at all. (easy for him to say).....but they think that it might have been one of two things. 1. a fluke seisure, or 2. a febral seisure....casued by a fever possibly from the immunizations. So we are going to be very cautious with his next round of shots and monitor him like a hawk......but so far he's been doing great.

Sorry to everyone out of town that I didn't call when this was going on. But, I do hope you understand why it would have been hard for me to re-live this more than once (telling my mom) over the phone. So now you know our horror story....Hopefully it's one of few in Finn's life.