Talk about an awful weekend!  My friend Dawn and I went to Murfreesboro to run some errands.  We brought our girls with us to tag along and had such a fun day out.  When we got home I felt really worn out and not the best.  I ended up going to bed around 8:30pm.

I woke up around 4am because Sanai was crying.  I went into her room and she was running a very high fever!  I stripped her down to her diaper, gave her some Motrin and a cool bottle of juice.  Her temp was around 102.8.  She stayed awake for around an hour and fell back asleep until about 8am.

She felt a bit warm from playing about 11am so I took her to the kitchen to get more Motrin and sat down on the couch to give her a bottle and all the sudden she started having a seizure.  This was the first one we have experienced where we knew we'd be staying home and not rushing to the doctor or the ER.  (this is based on what the children's hospital told us to do)  We timed her seizure and it lasted about 3 minutes and she came out of it pretty easy.

We started alternating Tylenol and Motrin every 4 hours like we had been told before and gave her a cool bath and periodically applied wet wash rags to her back and head.  But around 5pm she had another seizure.  This lasted about the same time and she came out of that one pretty easily too.  We started thinking perhaps she had picked up a virus that made me feel so crummy.

It was around 9pm when she was shaking very badly, like she had the chills but she was very warm.  She ended up having another seizure and had a harder time coming out of it.  Tommy took her into a room temp shower with him and then about 15 minutes later she had another seizure and threw up everywhere.  We thought it was time to take her to the ER at that point since we couldn't seem to control her temp.

The doctors found she had an ear infection, so she got an antibiotic shot and we got home around 2am.  I was hoping for an uneventful night but at 4am she had another seizure!!  She woke up a little fussy but in fairly good spirits.  We were sitting in the living room about 12 noon when her 6th seizure hit.  That's when I had my "moment". I had really been trying to be strong but there's nothing worse than your child going through something that renders you helpless.  Especially because most of the time she screams out in fear right before she goes under!!

We headed to a previously scheduled doctors appt at 1:30pm.  We have an amazing family doctor who placed a call to the Pediatric Neurologist department at Vanderbilt.  They ended up calling me around 6:30pm with a prescription for an anti-seizure medicine that she can take for three days that will help stop her seizures until the antibiotics kick in for her ear.

Talk about a stressful weekend - but she's doing great today.  She's actually out on a short stroll with daddy right now to get some fresh air!

Over the past few weeks I have asked myself this question over and over.  Why do we even buy her toys?

This girl loves her some tupperware!!

I can't believe her little tail is 11 months old today!!

Don't let the cuteness fool you, she's very ORNERY and likes to "use her voice"...especially when she's out of puffs! ha ha



Yesterday was not only Micah's actual birthday, it was also Christmas in Ethiopia!!(more on that later)

Along with it being Christmas it was also the National Championship game and as many of you know we are big Alabama fans.  My husband played in the National Championship game for Alabama in 1992.  So he rubbed the win in at school today wearing his National Championship game ring and his helmet. 

We were all decked out for the game and although we tried to take a family picture it was nearly impossible to get everyone to sit in the same spot long enough to snap a photo.  So we'll have to settle for individual ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROLL TIDE!!

This is the first year I've actually prepared ahead of time and planned Micah a big birthday party.  With his birthday being so close to Christmas (Jan 7th) I'm usually not thinking about things until it's too late because of the holidays.  With all the adjustments we've had this year and with Sanai's recent health issues I thought this would be a great time to show him how special he is.

He's very much into super hero's right now so I wanted to throw him a super hero birthday party.  I searched Pinterest for most of my ideas and I think it turned out great.  He told me he had a blast! The only bad part about the party was that it was FREEZING!  They turned the heater on about an hour before we got there but unfortunately it was only 45 degrees the whole time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Micah and Moore on the slide

 

 

They're wearing their coats because it was 45 degrees!!

 

 

 

 

Sanai got in on the fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy 4th Birthday, Bubba!!

Spending this New Years Eve with my three favorite people...

Our big excitement of the night is making chocolate chip cookies!!

 

 

From the Johnson family, we hope you have a safe and happy New Year!!

 

 

Sanai says "Hush up, so we can eat these COOKIES!"

 

 

We got home last night around 8:00pm and have been resting at home since then.  When we left the hospital Sanai's fever had just gone down and luckily it hasn't shown back up.  The doctors said her fever was caused by some sort of virus because all her labs came back clean.  She also had an EEG which analyzed her brain waves and everything came back normal.  We are VERY overly sensitive to her fever and are checking her constantly.  But besides being a bit fussy this morning when she woke up, which isn't like her at all, she has been in good spirits. 

She's not eating as much as she usually does but we have been trying to push fluids so she doesn't get dehydrated.  She seems to be back on her normal nap schedule also.  She slept a lot while we were in the hospital because we were told seizures tend to wear them out completely.  She was such a trooper, she was poked and proded so many times.

The Neurologist told us to probably expect more seizures but that we hope she will grown out of it.  She is at a slight risk for epilepsy when she gets older but we can't worry about that right now.  When/If she has another seizure we need to time it and if it lasts longer than 5 minutes we need to call 911 and if she doesn't wake up after 30  minutes we need to call 911.

It felt really good when the pediatric specialist who came and hour and a half to pick us up told my husband that I was a really good mama and that I stayed calm and was there for Sanai when she was going through her seizure.  That really wasn't the case with the first two seizures at all!  It felt good to hear a total stranger say something like that!  Needless to say, we hope she is on the mend.  And I want to thank everyone for their prayers.

At our local hospital, she was resting before the Vanderbilt team arrived to transport us

Leaving our local hospital, after her second seizure.  She was still not awake but stabilized.


 

Her little feet...we were waiting to be moved from the ER to a regular room

 

 

 



Sleeping after a morning bottle

 

 

We both squeezed on this tiny pull out bed!

Looking rough on this fine morning! LOL

 

Only my child would be this cute as a spaghetti head.  The tech asked me to send her this picture because she looked so cute!