A Bear, a Monkey & a little Monster!

We had a small hiccup today.

Cooper was having a Skype with his Grandparents today, showing them how he could jump and play in the pillow mountain (we pull all the pillows off the couch and make them into a small mountain). Unfortunately, he tripped on one of the cushions and clipped the edge of the couch (minus the pillows).

We thought that he was fine, he got up, then he wailed and did the long drawn out breath thing. Tim blew in his mouth to make him breath in (like we had been told by a paramedic in the past) but he wouldn’t take a breath. He blacked out but didn’t come around. Instead he started having a seizure. He went rigid and his back and neck arched horribly. Tim was cuddling him but put him on the ground so that he wouldn’t hurt himself. The seizure only lasted around 10-15 seconds (but it felt like an eternity). During this time I had bounded to the kitchen to get the phone and call 111.

After the seizure, Tim put Cooper into the recovery position and we both checked that he was breathing. He lay like that for a while then came to and started crying. He lay there until he wanted to get up then sat with Tim quietly until the paramedic’s arrived. Then he changed over to sit with me while the paramedics did their assessments. They decided, because he was so subdued, that it would be better to have him taken into the hospital to be checked over.

The pediatrician checked Cooper over and was happy that he was fit and healthy. He explained that the seizure that Cooper had experienced was called a Hypoxic Seizure. Bundled in with a bump to the face he was happy that Cooper shouldn’t have any more seizures. But we have been given some information about these things just in case.

We got home and Cooper was put to bed (as he had fallen asleep in the car). The poor wee mite hadn’t even eaten lunch – he was just exhausted. He slept for almost two hours. After he woke, he did eat and has eaten dinner well too – but he is our boy and he couldn’t refuse a pork roast.

It was awfully frightful but Cooper seems fine now. We will be booking Cooper in to see an Osteopath just to make sure that his insides are okay particularly after the seizure.

–Edit – now that I have had time to think about the whole thing, I can only imagine how horrifying it would have appeared to Tony and Kate, to be on the other end of the computer not being able to do much but watch the situation unfold.