All 4 Jake

As a teacher I used to love weekends. However after this weekend, I don't know if I can say that anymore.

We started out with a bang! Jake had a great Friday, besides visting the er for 6 stitches (or was that Thursday?), his seizure activity was actually down. He attended his cousins birthday and was even back by 7:30 to watch his last Scooby Doo of the day and be in bed by 8:00.

Saturday morning we woke up to go to Addison's first soccer game of the season. A friend graciously picked up Addison early so I could give Jake his meds and get there by game time. As I walk up to the game with Jake I witness Addi scoring, what I think is the first goal, as I am only 5- 10 minutes late. WRONG that was her third! My little Mia Hamm finished the game scoring multiple goals and was the only one who scored for her team! How much prouder, as an ex soccer player could I be?! We run a few errands, have a picnic lunch, and I put the kids down for a nap.

The rats get up and we prepare to go to another birthday party for Addison, however the parents asked if Jake could attend too, how cool is that? So I shower and go to the play room to check on the twerps, Just in time to see Jake fall face first off the couch and continue to go into a tc, grand mal. So I, wrapped in just a towel , think surely all the medicine he is on will stop this from going long...well about 3 mins into it the activity increased. I then prepare the emergency suppository and give it to him at about 4 minutes. I call the on call dr., as I hear gargled breathing and the seizure still hasn't stopped after the 10 mg of diastat. He advises to call 911. I am thinking "how do I get clothed" at this point. But, wouldn't ya" know it, while on the phone everything subsides and Jake is asleep....so I think. The resilient kid fully awakes about 30 minutes later and says "I smell something nasty!" (the suppository had caused him to go cacadoody) Once again I am dumbfounded...besides most people having a postitcal period of many hours after a seizure, the 30 lb kid just had Valium as well......I guess that nurse was right..."He's a fighter!"

I awake to a "brand new day" today. The kids and I go on a walk, have a picnic lunch, play with sidewalk chalk, and once again go down for a nap.

Jake wakes first, so he and I sit on the couch and watch "Overboard", read and talk....I move to the floor, to be "safe" so he would follow, he reaches for his snack on coffee table and yada, yada, yada, 6- 3 day old stitches out... 4 brand new ones in. Where's the helmet you ask...sitting right by us , on the floor, by the coffee table. Damn those drop seizures!

God Bless~ Christine

PS...Thanks "friend" for taking Addi to the party and thanks "sister" for watching Addison while I once again sew my boy up