Little Stinker!

Sunday evening, Macayla had two more grand mal seizures. That's two weeks to the day since the last ones. One lasted about 30 seconds in the car. The second was an hour and half later and lasted 2 minutes. We gave her diastat and she slept until 3 a.m. She was nauseated and a bit agitated. We gave her medicine to combat the nausea and she slept for a little while longer. Monday morning, just before 9 a.m. she had another grand mal that was over 3 minutes. She got more Diastat. Overall she did much better through these and breathed better through them. Therefore, I did better. But the Diastat took longer to affect her that time and she only slept for two hours. After the seizures on Sunday evening, we noticed that Macayla's heart rate was very irregular. It was so irregular that it was difficult to even count. It stayed irregular through the night and Monday morning. We decided to go in for an EEG at the neurologist's office and while we were there we could walk over to cardiology and do an EKG. This was all scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday. On the way over to Greenville, Macayla became more alert and laughed. When we pulled into the parking lot, I listened to her heart and it was beating completely normal! She was acting completely normal. The EEG and EKG were completely normal! Normally this is a good thing, but in our situation, we actually want her to be abnormal during an EEG and EKG so that we can determine what is going on. The little stinker would not show off for the doctors! It is good that she recovered, don't get me wrong, but we wanted to catch these grand mals on an EEG and we wanted to do the EKG while her heart was acting strange so that we could know what we are dealing with. For now she is very clear and laughing a lot. As a matter of fact, she didn't even sleep last night. She laughed every time we came in to check on her. She had a great old time watching movies all night and laughing at her sleepy parents trying to get her sleepy. Little stinker!!