Saturday Feb 13, 2010
What a weekend, our family could use a little less excitement. Saturday evening something smelled like it was burning in the house. I woke up and Brent was still awake. We couldn't find where the smell was coming from, but something smelled like burning wood. We called the fire department and they could smell it, and they did a heat scan of the entire house and checked common causes. We still do not what it was and they didn't figure it out, but they said we definitely did the right thing to call.
Sunday Feb 14, 2010
I feel very well rested and get up before the alarm, a very rare occurrence. Everything seems to be going very smooth for an early Sunday morning. Graedy is even helping get Sneha ready he combs her hair and brushes her teeth.(It is usually Elise that helps little sis.) I was getting my makeup on and Graedy comes running to the bathroom, "Mom something is wrong with Sneha, I think she just had a seizure." I run to the dining room and our little Sneha is laying on the floor pale and limp. Her jaw is gritted and she is awake,but not responsive. Thank goodness that Graedy knew what seizures look like, he witness Elijah having a seizure some time ago in Fort Collins. I took Sneha to the ER she had a CT scan, urine culture, and blood drawn. She does-- NOT-- have a brain tumor-the CT looks normal. The ER doctor said this wasn't probably the first seizure and we are to follow up with a pediatric neurologist. Good and bad news all at the same time, but we do have time. She is here and we have services to help.
God knew that we could handle this special need even if we didn't. Epilepsy was not on our check list of needs that we would be ok with. God places children with their specific families we do not pick the children. He has all this planned out in advance and we are to obey. These children who look just like a diagnosis too hard to bear are real, they are more than their special need, they are valuable children of the King. God blinded us to all the negative possibilities for Elijah and Sneha, their lives have a purpose. We are not to question "why????", we are just to be obedient. I cried many tears of fear about raising a delayed child, physical disabilities I felt more comfortable with for some reason. Now we have two special needs children one with a traumatic brain injury with seizures and one with a lot of unknowns. The bottom line is thank goodness they are home and we can help them. I am so glad they are not having to cope all alone.
1 John 3:11 This is the message that you heard from the beginning: " We should love one another."
3 comments:
Thankful to hear that you could get Sneha in to the doctor quickly and it didn't turn out any worse. Still it must be a scary thing to see your child go through a seizure. We're praying for you.
It must have been scary to go through this experience. But, as you said, God has given her a family to care for and she did not have to go through all this on her own. This itself would be a matter of great strength to her. In your post, you have written, 'she does have a brain tumor - the CT looks normal'. Does she have to undergo a surgery for this?
Hope she is feeling fine now after the Sunday incident.
How scary for all of you! Please keep us posted on how Sneha appt. goes.
Big Hugs to all of you!!!! We miss you! :)
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